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Bug 10135

Summary:	[preferences] Should be able to set the colors of the Selection.
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	David Corbin <dcorbin>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	duraid, rick.goldstein, Tod_Creasey
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	accessibility
Target Milestone:	3.0 M9
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:	28993
Bug Blocks:

Description David Corbin

2002-02-22 22:19:58 EST

I use a black background. The dark blue is selection is very hard to see.  I
would like to be able to set the background and foreground color used for
showing selected text.

Comment 1 Erich Gamma

2002-05-09 15:40:38 EDT

As far as I understand there is no StyledText widget support to do so.
Moving to SWT for confirmation.

Comment 2 Mike Wilson

2002-05-09 16:01:12 EDT

The selection background should be the standard selection background for the 
platform. I just tried this on win32 and changing the color via the display 
properties causes the selection color in an open StyledText to change.

There is no API for setting the default selection color from within Eclipse. 
Note that, StyledText could be coded to support an arbitrary selection color 
which defaulted to the system default (sic).

Comment 3 David Corbin

2002-05-09 16:10:02 EDT

In the short term, the user shouldn't be allowed to set the background to the
same as the selection, or at least provide a warning.

Comment 4 Veronika Irvine

2002-09-11 14:07:53 EDT

Moving from Later.

Comment 5 Rick Goldstein

2002-12-27 16:39:22 EST

Hi.  Just curious to know if the GUI for this is planned any time soon.  The 
necessary SWT API has apparently been available for some time (see 10050 and 
related), but the GUI for selecting colors for the Java and other editors does 
not appear to be there.  Thanks.

Comment 6 Steve Northover

2003-01-02 15:42:57 EST

Moving to JDT UI.  See StyledText.set/getSelectionForeground() and 
StyledText.set/getSelectionBackground().

Comment 7 Duraid Madina

2003-08-14 07:51:56 EDT

any progress on this one? my eyes, my eyes!!! :(

Comment 8 Dani Megert

2003-08-15 07:46:58 EDT

Pumping up prio. This is an accessibility issue.

Comment 9 Dani Megert

2004-04-14 10:10:38 EDT

Released Christof's patch.
Available in builds > 20040414

Comment 10 Tod Creasey

2004-05-20 11:01:53 EDT

Verified using High Contrast in 20040520