[issue24972] IDLE: revisit text highlighting for inactive windows on win32

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- assignee: -> terry.reedy resolution: -> fixed stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed type: -> behavior ___ Python tracker

[issue24972] IDLE: revisit text highlighting for inactive windows on win32

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 2445750029df by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.4': Issue #24972: Inactive selection background now matches active selection https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2445750029df -- ___ Python tracker

[issue24972] IDLE: revisit text highlighting for inactive windows on win32

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 45955adc2ed2 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7': Issue #24972: New option is only valid in tk 8.5+. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/45955adc2ed2 New changeset 460e6e6fb09a by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.4': Issue #24972: New option is only valid

[issue24972] IDLE: revisit text highlighting for inactive windows on win32

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 4b3356f1a261 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7': Issue #24972: Inactive selection background now matches active selection https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4b3356f1a261 New changeset 70c01dd35100 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.4': Issue #24972:

[issue24972] IDLE: revisit text highlighting for inactive windows on win32

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I first testing the workaround by selecting text and then clicking on another window, and the highlight stayed. I commented out "self._highlight_workaround()", quit, started again, tested again, and the highlight disappeared. I added the new line above,

[issue24972] IDLE: revisit text highlighting for inactive windows on win32

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I verified that inactiveselectbackground exists and starts as ''. Since it should match the active selectbackground on all systems, as set by the current theme. I will try adding a line where selection colors are set: EditorWindow.ResetColorizer:

[issue24972] IDLE: revisit text highlighting for inactive windows on win32

Mark Roseman added the comment: See inactiveselection.patch. This addresses the original bug of the debugger not highlighting the correct line, and also various issues with the find windows not highlighting the selection they have found, e.g. #22179, #18590 -- keywords: +patch Added

[issue24972] IDLE: revisit text highlighting for inactive windows on win32

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Rather than copying the nosy list from an old issue, which likely contains people no longer interested, better to announce a followup on the old issue. I am not sure what you want me to try out. If it is a code change, please upload a patch. If it is a user

[issue24972] IDLE: revisit text highlighting for inactive windows on win32

New submission from Mark Roseman: This is a followup to #14146 I don't think this is actually a Tk bug. The text widget supports an "inactiveselectbackground" option which controls the background color of the selection when the window is not active. On Win32, this is defined as empty (i.e.