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.
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,
844 if ( bHighContrast )
845 aBackColor = rStyleSettings.GetShadowColor();
846 else
847 aBackColor = Color( COL_LIGHTGRAY);
So the problem is that they suppose that unless the user has set a High
Contrast theme he is using black on white colors. But I never use
Windows High Contrast because of certain problems, preferring to use a
regular theme, and change the colors there (though I do have set high
contrast colors for the OOo Help).
I am wondering whether the Shadow Color is the color of the bars or or
the 3D objects, and right after I reset the Font color the program
perceives momentarily that I am using high contrast *colors* and uses
this color, but if I close the dialog and open it again it forgets it,
and just checks if the system *theme* is high contrast, which it isn't.
It seems to me that this if else shouldn't be there and just set the
color in line 845 to Shadow Color unless it is inappropriate for the
usual colors; or else, use another criterion for deciding to use it or
not, checking the font and background colors.
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).
So the answer is no, you can't change that. You'll have to submit a bug
report.
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Regards
I send another reply to the newsgroup which I do not see in the server
(yet). I said that instead of subscribing to a mailing list, my second
choice to a newsgroup would be an Internet forum.
Thanks,
emf
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