Colour of selected text

Hi,

I'm not sure what you mean by the "highlight" area, but it looks as if you can use (in PE6) :

File > Options > Colours / Fonts : Then the Edit button gives simple control of the main colours, or the Manual Edit appears to give control of more colours where the .....Color("#RRGGBB") field selects the intensity of the Red, Green and Blue Bytes.

Cheers, Alan.
 
Hi,

I'm not sure what you mean by the "highlight" area, but it looks as if you can use (in PE6) :

File > Options > Colours / Fonts : Then the Edit button gives simple control of the main colours, or the Manual Edit appears to give control of more colours where the .....Color("#RRGGBB") field selects the intensity of the Red, Green and Blue Bytes.

Cheers, Alan.

In "normal" colour setting this whith light blue is "highlight" area:
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but on black background it is low or nothing visible.
 
Same issue here, I can't find a highlight setting. Would have been nice to have a dark mode because it so much easier on the eyes. Took a while fiddling with colours and they probably don't look "standard" now.
 
Same issue here, I can't find a highlight setting. Would have been nice to have a dark mode because it so much easier on the eyes. Took a while fiddling with colours and they probably don't look "standard" now.

For test only:

Go to the path:
C:\Users\"YourUser"\AppData\Roaming\Revolution Education\PICAXE Editor\Settings

BACKUP ALL YOUR FILE!!!, BACKUP ALL YOUR FILE!!! ,BACKUP ALL YOUR FILE!!! then replace with new attached definitions.

In picaxe editor go to: "Option -> Colour/Font:
Check "Custom Editor Colours" and "Custom Syntax Scheme"
Browse ... : "MyPICAXE-DARK-ColourScheme.xml"
Press "OK"

(highlight text non work well...)
 

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Thanks gspanu!!

"TerminalColourScheme.xml" wasn't in my config before and without it a dark scheme seemed unusable with the Terminal. I've copied over this file ver and the "MyPICAXE-DARK-ColourScheme.xml" and that's all I seemed to need. Everyone's going to have different preferences but mine is "Dodger Blue" for keywords instead of yellow because I have troubling showing the yellow in MS Word in dark mode and in printing it out too. Also, I like Cascadia Code font etc.

If I ever get happy with my scheme I'll post it back :)
 
I’ve found a small improvement to the highlighting can be done by closing PE and editing PICAXE_Editor_General_Settings.xml so that Blue is replaced with White or LightYellow in this line: <ColorCurrentLineHighlight>Blue</ColorCurrentLineHighlight>

For the time being, to have the text shown in Word with Dark Mode and to also be printable I’m using what looks like orange, system colour of Chocolate. I think the orange is going to take some time to get used to! String is toned down a bit from Red to FireBrick; Keywords to DodgerBlue; Numbers and Operators to a light turquoise without Bold etc.

In the files attached I’ve stripped out duplications for font type and size to try and make the default work more freely. It’s irritating that unless I edit the files directly, PE seems to keep allocating Text to Courier New, 10pt when using Edit Values for any field type.

Shame I couldn’t seem to find how to change the Terminal line number colour to the Editor’s line colour, but the magenta is quite clear. Also, I’ve left the ribbon etc as default for now.

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