On 01.01.2011, at 20:50, Michael Sweet wrote: > On Jan 1, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Matthias Melcher wrote: >> >> On 01.01.2011, at 04:32, CIB wrote: >> >>> The reason is that it uses a really high contrast to draw some of the box >>> lines. This looks good on a bright desktop, since black outlines on a white >>> background look natural, but it looks very ugly on a dark desktop, where >>> white outlines will be disturbing. >> >> Thanks for the nice words. >> >> FLTK reads the user color settings from the desktop. You can override that >> by giving command line arguments -fg -bg and -bg2, followed by a color or >> color value. > > If I understand the original post correctly, the issue is not that FLTK > doesn't pick up the right colors, but that the default highlight colors are > too bright when used on dark backgrounds. That might mean we need to tweak > the color ramp to properly highlight things (rather than making a change to > the shading characters...)
Oh, I should have mentioned that the proposed commandline characters were meant as a quick fix - nothing else. Yes, we should probably try FLTK with more color schemes. I would not generally just reduce the highlight, because these extremes are important when vision impaired users need extreme contrasts. But I can very well see haow extreme highlights are very annoying on a dark desktop. _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
