determining backgroundcolor of the editor

[Uwe Kaiser]

Hi,

I already looked in cpphighlighting.cpp  but found only

///@todo Find the correct text foreground color from kate!

Enclosed is patch that also set the foreground.

Greetings,Uwe


2008/12/13 David Nolden <zwabel at googlemail.com>

> Am Samstag, 13. Dezember 2008 12:01:19 schrieb Uwe Kaiser:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is it possible to get the backgroundcolor from the editor.
> > Normal I use a dark background and bright foreground,
> > but the contextbrowser uses yellow to highlight, so I can't read the
> > hightlighted code.
> > So I would like  to test if it is possible to change the color that the
> > contextbrowser plugin
> > use for hightlighting depending on the backgroundcolor
> >
> > Cheers
> > Uwe Kaiser
> It should be possible in some way, but I haven't had the endurance to find
> out
> how. You can see some tries in cpphighlighting.cpp, that's the place where
> most of the code-highlighting happens, except for the one special
> highlighting you talk about, that happens in the context-browser. We need a
> way of making sure that the contrast between text and its background stays
> readable. The simple way of solving the context-browser highlighting
> problem
> would be just changing the text-color of the highlighted text as well so
> it's
> readable on the yellow.
>
> Greetings, David
>
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