Slick V3.3 manual Setting Colors for Screen Elements, Setting Colors for Screen Ele Ments

Setting Colors for Screen Ele-

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ent screen elements in SlickEdit® Core. This includes syntactic elements in the editor window, like keywords, comments, strings, etc. as well as other user interface elements like the message area or the status line. Window colors and backgrounds are set using the facilities provided by the operating system.

Color and Color Coding are different. Color Coding is a feature that combines current line coloring, modi- fied line coloring, and language-specific coloring. SlickEdit Core recognizes and automatically displays color support for many languages. See Color Coding for more information.

Setting Colors for Screen Elements

Colors can be customized in the user interface. Colors can be set either individually or by editing a scheme. To change the default colors, complete the following steps:

1.From the main menu, click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the Color setting (or use the color command). The Color Settings dialog box is dis- played.

Figure 4.6. Color Settings Dialog

2.Select the element you want to change from the Screen element list box (for descriptions of some of these elements, see Color Settings Dialog).

3.Set the Foreground and Background colors by clicking on the color squares. The Color Picker dialog

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