Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> Angus Leeming wrote:
>> LyX currently stores an 'X11 colour name' in LColor.[Ch]. Fortunately,
>> you can generate it from the R,G,B triple... This code is currently in
>> FormPreferences.C. Move it into Color.[Ch] and move these files into
>> support.
>
> I see. Thanks for enlightening. Additionally, your proposed method for
> calculating button shadow colors could go there too, then we may have
> colored inset buttons.
> BTW, is there an easy way to "invert" (?) a color, so that we could
> calculate an appropriate (i.e. readable) button label color for a given
> button color? (or chose dark or light text color depending on the
> background)?
>
> Juergen.
<shrug>dunno</shrug>
You could perhaps parse /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt (location may vary). It has
entries of the form:
255 250 250 snow
248 248 255 ghost white
but really, I think that that is overkill.
--
Angus
