On 02/21/2012 09:08 AM, Patrick wrote:
I downloaded this colour scheme:
http://www.barryvan.com.au/2009/01/geany-ide-tango-dark-colour-scheme/
I like it but when a line is selected it highlights white text with a
white background.
Could someone tell me where I can change the colour of the selected line?
Thanks-Patrick
If you have not yet tweaked Geany's config files (which is probable as
you ask this), here are a few points:
* Geany's "filetype" (read: language) config files originally are in a
system-wide folder: /usr/share/geany under linux
* To customize one of them, you must (or rather should) first copy it
into your personal config folder for filetypes: ~/.config/geany/filedefs
* Fortunately, there is a shortcut for filetypes.common: you can
directly open it in and from geany via menu: tools --> config files. I
guess the personal copy is created if it does not exist yet (check).
(I asked for the same feature for specific languages; it may come one day.)
* There in filetypes.common you'll find default values for all kinds of
params about visual appearance, especially colors, which are active
unless overriden by language-specific values.
* The first section defines rendering of special cases (eg selection) or
surrouding features (folding symbols in margin). Some of them may not be
obvious: try with weird colors, open any true text for edit, reload the
config (in menu tools again).
* Geany has a handy tool, namely a builtin color chooser (*); place it
on your tool bar if not yet there. Morever, if you select a color before
opening it, the chooser has it selcted so you start with it, and when
after changing you valid the color it replaces the original one in
config text.
* The last section of filetypes.common defines text highlighting
properly speaking, using named colors that you can use in specific
filetype config files, including there in common. For instance, I have this:
# datum: brown
datum=0x703D00;0xFCDFB8;false;false
number=datum
string=datum
Hope this helps (others too).
Denis
(1) Unfortunately, it is a HSV color selector. I have never been able to
understand the logic of HSV (even after reading about this color model,
compared to others); only H for hue is OK. S is /not/ saturation, and V
even less lightness. Thus, I always end up tweaking S & V components
more or less by chance. Hints welcome.
HSL is obvious: S is truely saturation (purity, "vividity") and L truely
lightness (black to white).
I imagine Geany uses a GTK component, so I won't ask for a change...
except if ever GTK has a human-usable color selector (read HSL).
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