Description Martin Aeschlimann 2008-02-08 12:19:26 EST

Created attachment 89277 [details]
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20080208

As a UI guideline, no colors should be rendered on selected element.

But for the JDT 'find occurrence' and the Platform/Search 'text search' result view, we think we should make an exception on this rule.

In these views, the background color is used to mark the matches on the line. Not showing any matches when the line is selected is not a good option, as the match location is the important information.

For selected elements we experimented with different approaches and ended up with using the 'dotted box' for matches in selected element.

I don't think this is established enough to make this the default behavior in the  SimpleStyledCellLabelProvider. Therefor I suggest to open up the SimpleStyledCellLabelProvider so that the paint behavior can be replaced.

See the attached patch for a suggestion.