Re: New Frame issues

Hi Praveen

Normaly I can observe this behavior, when I use
a dark (may be a black) background color in XEmacs
but a bright (may be a white) background color in
my Window-Desktop Settings.

Codings in XEmacs are colorized by faces, where
a face can define a color for a bright and a color
for a dark background, this is the change in colorizing
you observed when opening a new frame.

When XEmacs starts (comes up), there is no XEmacs-Background
color (black), so XEmacs takes a look at the background color
of the Windows-Desktop (white). While this XEmacs decided
to use the 'bright' definitions of the faces. After the
basic initialisation of the XEmacs is finished, the XEmacs
read your .emacs file where you defined a black background
(but this to late).

While the XEmacs discover only at the time of the creation of
a (new) frame the bright/dark background, there is no chance
to switch from bright to dark background in one frame, without
using the 'wrong' colors.

I don't know a way to reinit the current frame, so the only
way I know to fix this problem is nothing more than an ugly
workaround:

  ... create a new frame and delete the old (current)
  frame in your .emacs after you have change the
  background color.

<SNIP> ------------------------
;; initialize frame
;; ===============
(new-frame)
(delete-frame)
<SNIP> ------------------------





Kukkadapu Praveen-W50881 wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> I have diffecrent color codings for C/C++ code, set in my .emacs file 
> and it works just fine when I open a C/C++ file. When I launch a "new 
> frame" from this frame, all the color codings are screwed up in the new 
> frame and it follows some weird color coding scheme. I am not sure why 
> it hapens. any idea?
>  
> Thanks,
> Praveen
>  

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