[Eric] Colours and Fonts in eric4

Christof Hanke hanke at rzg.mpg.de
Sat Jul 21 04:34:34 BST 2007



Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> 
> Upon a fresh install, eric4 uses the fonts and style set by qtconfig and the 
> default fonts and colors for the language lexers. This should be adjusted to 
> the users liking.
OK, then I was too fast istalling all this qt4-stuff.
> 
>> * My default Colour\SelectionBackground is(was) black, so I wanted to
>> change that, but it took me a while to note that changing the colour in
>> options is not enough. You also need to activate the "Eigene Farben für
>> Auswahl" in "Styles" maybe it is more user-friendly if the option is
>> automatically activated when the colour is changed ?
>> The confusing bit is that the selection of the custom colour is in
>> Editors/Colours and it's activation is in Editors/Styles (I'm just
>> guessing the english option-nameds here).
> 
> I'll add a note to the colors page.
That should be enough, thanks.
> 
>> * The width of the options window s too small, the width of the right
>> hand side column is fixed, so that the names in the left hand column are
>> truncated. Not a big issue, but it doesn't look nice.
> 
> That depends on the translation used. Unfortunately some languages are more 
> space consuming than others. The right hand side get proportinally more space 
> than the left hand side (horizontal stretch is 30:70).

OK.

Thaks again.

Christof



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