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Bug 313139

Summary:

[ErrorHandling] High Contrast mode doesn't change the background of an error report dialog

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Andreas Eminidis <andrease>

Component:

Assignee:

Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>

Status:

CLOSED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

pwebster, Tod_Creasey

Version:

4.0

Keywords:

accessibility

Target Milestone:

---

Hardware:

OS:

Windows Vista

Whiteboard:

stalebug

Attachments:

Description	Flags
the patch is removing the line where the background color is set	none

Description Andreas Eminidis

2010-05-17 10:23:59 EDT

Build Identifier: I20100426-0852

The StyledText inside the error trace dialog appears to be complete white, because the text is in white and so is its background. This is because in the code, a white background is enforced which prevents it to turn black in high contrast mode. To prevent this problem, I propose a potential patch to solve this problem which is attached with this bug report. My proposed solution is to remove the line of code that enforces the background color to be white. This will permit the background color to be changed to the one that Microsoft Windows uses for all of its other windows.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change the window settings in Windows so the text will appear in white and background around text would appear in black. This is the "high contrast black" mode in vista and xp.

2. Make the application fail and click details so it will show you the trace.

3. The trace is a StyledText and the text is unreadable

Comment 1 Andreas Eminidis

2010-05-17 10:28:49 EDT

Created attachment 168736 [details]
the patch is removing the line where the background color is set

Another potential solution would be to have a check for high contrast and modify the background color, in that case.
For example:
if (Display.getDefault().getHighContrast()) { 
return Display.getCurrent().getSystemColor( 
SWT.COLOR_WIDGET_BACKGROUND); 
} 
else { 
return Display.getCurrent().getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR.WHITE);

Comment 2 Tod Creasey

2011-05-26 08:58:36 EDT

This is also an issue in 3.6

Comment 3 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 02:20:49 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

If the bug is still relevant, please remove the "stalebug" whiteboard tag.