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Developer forums (C::B DEVELOPMENT STRICTLY!) => Development => Topic started by: yvesdm3000 on October 04, 2015, 03:57:46 pm
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I added a feature to CB to alter the colour of whitespace.
I think this should be base functionality, no idea if it can be implemented as a plugin or if it's worth it to do so...
Signed-off-by: Yves De Muyter <yves@alfavisio.be>
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Can you show a screenshot depicting the use case for this feature?
I'm not sure I understand why someone will choose different colour than the background colour in the syntax highlight.
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About this topic, some program like Notepad++ can show the "white space" and "tab" as a special characters(dot and arrow), see image shot below, which I though is a quite nice feature. :)
(http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/230x108q90/911/eAjLTz.png)
EDIT: it looks like C::B already has this feature. ;)
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ollydbg : Good news, Code::Blocks can do this allready !
But with latest SVN version, you can't alter it's colour, it simply uses the normal text colour and I find that a bit too intrusive.
In this screenshot, I altered the default to use a light grey. You hardly notice it unless you need it, which is way better than the black it had before. About any other editor that I know of and tried can do this, and once you get used to a feature and you change apps, you start to miss it...
A lot of other editors and Scintilla also allows you to set the whitespace background color and the size of the dot, but I don't really see the use for these extra features so I didn't add them (although it would be very easy to add them)
-Yves
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So this allows changing the colour of the white space special character when they are shown?
BTW: The screen shot doesn't show.
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So this allows changing the colour of the white space special character when they are shown?
That's correct.
BTW: I updated the image with a better one.
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So this allows changing the colour of the white space special character when they are shown?
That's correct.
I like the idea. I wouldn't mind if this gets applied. I'll give it a try...
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yvesdm3000: Can you give us rgb values for the color you're using in the screen shot.
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Does it matter what colour? The patch I've sent in gives you the choice to select the color and I honestly didn't give that much attention selecting any exact colour, the color I took might even be a little bit too bright.
In any case, if you intend to hardcode it, be aware that a lot of people have black backgrounds and will therefore need another colour (or shade of grey or any other colour like red as in the screenshot from Notepad++)
The colour that I seemed to have picked is #D2D2D2 (R=G=B=210 or H=0, S=0, V=82)
The attached screenshot shows how it's configured.
-Yves
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No, I don't want to hard code it, but I don't think black is a good default value.
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Oh, I chose black because that was the colour it was before...
-Yves
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In svn, a bit modified, thank you.