Re: Colors in Options

On 2011-09-17 18:17 Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
> Hello Eustace,
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 01:44:39AM -0400, Eustace wrote:
>> 2 questions on colors:
>>
>> (1) In the Options>  OpenOffice.org>  Appearance>  Custom colors,
>> some elements have a check box in front and other do not have one.
>> What's the difference?
>
> You can see the difference with the following example:
>
> * create a new text document
> * select Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - Appearance
> * in the General category, change the Text boundaries options as
> * follows:
> ** change the color setting from Automatic to Blue
> * press Ok to confirm your changes
>
> Now, back to the text document, the text boundaries are blue.
>
> Then go back to the Tools - Options dialog, and uncheck the check box in front of
> the Text boundaries option.
> Confirm your changes.
> Back to the document, it has NO text boundaries, because unchecking that
> options turns them off.
>
> Go back to the Tools - Options dialog, check that option again, and text
> boundaries are blue again.

After this explanation the additional ones were not necessary, Thanks.

>> Does unchecking an element that you have
>> changed makes the color setting automatic?
>
> no unchecking an element turns the setting off (that's the meaning of
> that column "On", checking turns the element on, uncheching turns it
> off).
>
>> In that case, if an
>> element is set to automatic, it shouldn't matter if the checkbox is
>> checked or not, right?
>
> No. If the element color is set to automatic, but the element is off (=
> unchecked), the element won't be displayed:
> * if text boundaries are off, no text boundaries are displayed
> * if Field shading is off, fields won't be highlighted with a color shade
> * etc.
>
>> (2) Since I use white on blue color scheme in my system, the title
>> lines in the same dialog (eg. General, Text Document, HTML Document)
>> have a gray background (132, 132, 132) which makes the white text
>> difficult to read. What is the element that I should change to make
>> the title line background darker?
>
>
> Looking at the code
> http://hg.services.openoffice.org/OOO340/file/12fa3ee3d107/cui/source/options/optcolor.cxx#l847
> it seems the background color of the categories is hard-coded to
> COL_LIGHTGRAY, that is
> http://hg.services.openoffice.org/OOO340/file/12fa3ee3d107/tools/inc/tools/color.hxx#l72
> RGB( 0xC0, 0xC0, 0xC0) in hex, or (192, 192, 192) in decimal (I have no idea why it
> gives you 132, 132, 132).

You are right. It is (192, 192, 192).

> So the answer is no, you can't change that. You'll have to submit a bug
> report.

Thanks for the explanations. The peculiarity I mentioned in another 
message persists, but it is unimportant. I'll submit a bug report.

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Thanks for telling me. So we'll now have a mailing list and not a 
newsgroup... That means that by subscribing I'll be receiving by email 
all the posts. I do not like this option. My second alternative to a 
newsgroup would be a web-based forum...

> Regards

Thanks again,

emf

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