Warren Samples wrote:
This gives a reasonable approximation, certainly much better than the default, but it raises a question for me. Is there a way to set the foreground color of the selection? I don't find it in the dictionary, and the white text doesn't work so well in all cases. Obviously there's a global property that is being set be set, but I can't find it.
In contrast to the engine's behavior on OS X, in Windows and Linux selected text is inverted and I can find no way to have it do otherwise.
This has been an ongoing problem that has limited a good many xplat designs for several years, so with your prompting I finally took the time to submit a request for that, coupling it with a request for improved behavior of the hiliteColor property in fields since they seem related and could hopefully be implemented at the same time:
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