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    • Michael VincentM
      Michael Vincent @Alan Kilborn
      last edited by

      @Alan-Kilborn

      I’m not sure, but I think it adds the colorStyle="1" to the style of the option you’re configuring. What does that mean?

      For an example, I use Obsidian as my default style which has a dark background. Let’s say I’m configuring some element of a user defined language or maybe just text option or whatever your image above is for. If I use the bottom image - the one without cross hatching I will see grey text on a yellow background on an otherwise dark grey background supplied from Obsidian. If instead I use your top picture, the one with cross-hatching I will see grey text on the Obsidian background. Looking in the userdefined language XML, I’ll also now see the colorStyle="1" for that element.

      So to me, it’s like kind of like cross-hatch means make the color transparent so the theme’s background color (whatever it may be) is the background for that “colour style”.

      Does that make sense?

      Cheers.

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      • EkopalypseE
        Ekopalypse @Michael Vincent
        last edited by

        Oh man, I should have known that sooner, then I could have saved myself some work.

        Thx @Alan-Kilborn @Michael-Vincent for bringing it up and discussing it.

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        • EkopalypseE
          Ekopalypse
          last edited by

          By the way, I would say that this should be the standard for the UDL anyway.
          I mean, if you set colorStyle=“0” as default, UDL would work better with themes.

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          • Alan KilbornA
            Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
            last edited by

            @Ekopalypse said in What is the cross-hatching for? (Style Configurator):

            if you set colorStyle=“0” as default, UDL would work better with themes.

            Did you mean to say:

            if you set colorStyle=“1” as default, UDL would work better with themes.

            Or am I fundamentally misunderstanding something? If that’s the case can you explain a bit more what you mean in this context?

            @Michael-Vincent and @Ekopalypse : Thanks for the replies.

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            • Alan KilbornA
              Alan Kilborn
              last edited by Alan Kilborn

              Interesting that I had not previously noticed this, posted 3 days ago: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/2662#issuecomment-611458747

              @Michael-Vincent It even mentions the Obsidian theme. Maybe that is a popular one that I should check out.

              I liked the poster’s original comment (later edited out for some reason): Who would have thought of right clicking boxes, amirite?

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              • Michael VincentM
                Michael Vincent @Alan Kilborn
                last edited by

                @Alan-Kilborn said in What is the cross-hatching for? (Style Configurator):

                Obsidian theme. Maybe that is a popular one that I should check out.

                Many of the themes are woefully out of date as they have not been updated as sintilla lexer variables change. I have been updating my obsidian by hand since I use it so much. It’s a dark theme but not dark black background .

                Cheers.

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                • Alan KilbornA
                  Alan Kilborn @Michael Vincent
                  last edited by

                  @Michael-Vincent said in What is the cross-hatching for? (Style Configurator):

                  Many of the themes are woefully out of date as they have not been updated as sintilla lexer variables change.

                  It seems like maybe we need “theme maintainers” much like there seems to be “language/translation maintainers” and “UDL maintainers”.

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                  • EkopalypseE
                    Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                    last edited by

                    @Alan-Kilborn said in What is the cross-hatching for? (Style Configurator):

                    if you set colorStyle=“1” as default, UDL would work better with themes.

                    No, as far as I understand,
                    0 = default foreground and background
                    1 = default background
                    2 = default foreground

                    It seems like maybe we need “theme maintainers” much like there seems to be “language/translation maintainers” and “UDL maintainers”.

                    I thought about creating a python script based on the stylers.xml to
                    bring all themes to the same level but I’m unsure about the copyright stuff.

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                    • Alan KilbornA
                      Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                      last edited by

                      @Ekopalypse said in What is the cross-hatching for? (Style Configurator):

                      thought about creating a python script based on the stylers.xml to
                      bring all themes to the same level

                      I like that idea!

                      but I’m unsure about the copyright stuff.

                      What does this mean?

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                      • EkopalypseE
                        Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                        last edited by

                        @Alan-Kilborn

                        If you open the themes you will see that they have different licenses
                        and/or copyright statements or non at all.
                        What needs to be done if there is no license or copyright statement but an author stated?
                        What needs to be done on GPL2?

                        If one wants to bring all to the same level, all should have the same license, correct?

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                        • Alan KilbornA
                          Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                          last edited by

                          @Ekopalypse

                          Well, you could always create the script anyway, and power-users could benefit by updating their individual copies of the theme files. It might be the thing that finally kicks me over the hump to stop using the default theme. :-)

                          But, yes, I guess I am not sure how to answer the licensing question.

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                          • guy038G
                            guy038
                            last edited by

                            Hello, @michael-vincent, @ekopalypse, @alan-kilborn, and All,

                            @alan-kilborn said :

                            It might be the thing that finally kicks me over the hump to stop using the default theme. :-)

                            Me, too !

                            Best Regards

                            guy038

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                            • EkopalypseE
                              Ekopalypse
                              last edited by

                              Let me think about it.

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                              • PeterJonesP
                                PeterJones @Ekopalypse
                                last edited by

                                @Ekopalypse said in What is the cross-hatching for? (Style Configurator):

                                0 = default foreground and background
                                1 = default background
                                2 = default foreground

                                Thanks for that. I hadn’t known either about the right click or the colorStyle attribute values (neither was previously officially documented)

                                PR#81 for preferences docs include describing the right-click on the color box to get the same behavior.

                                Docs PR#82 includes describing that behavior in both the configuration files details and in the UDL (same attribute values in both).

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                                • PeterJonesP
                                  PeterJones @PeterJones
                                  last edited by

                                  @PeterJones said in What is the cross-hatching for? (Style Configurator):

                                  and in the UDL

                                  And in case you didn’t know, my experiments show that the “inherit from default” for UDL inherits from the Style Configurator > … >Default Style colors, not from the UDL > Default Style: > Styler. I made sure to document that.

                                  And also found a bug in the UDL color box slash indicators.

                                  So this discussion prompted two PRs and a bug report so far. Thanks. :-)

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                                  • PeterJonesP
                                    PeterJones
                                    last edited by

                                    Thanks for that.

                                    in case I wasn’t clear, thanks to everyone in this thread, who all contributed to the understanding.

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                                    • Alan KilbornA
                                      Alan Kilborn
                                      last edited by

                                      And there’s more to come yet:

                                      @Ekopalypse said:

                                      I thought about creating a python script based on the stylers.xml to
                                      bring all themes to the same level

                                      Hopeful cross-link?: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/52587

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                                      • guy038G
                                        guy038
                                        last edited by

                                        Hello @peterjones, @alan-kilborn, @ekopalypse, @michael-vincent, and All,

                                        I have not migrated to v7.8.6, yet. However, I noticed, since a very long time, the bug you mentioned, Peter, in the link below :

                                        https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/npp-usermanual/pull/81#issuecomment-614183652

                                        To produce that issue, where both the background and foreground colors are available, where only one should be :

                                        • Start Notepad++ ( I did this test with the release v7.8.5 )

                                        • Run for instance, Settings > Style configurator

                                        • Verify that the Default ( stylers.xml) theme is selected

                                        • Select the Global Styles language

                                        • And select, for instance, the Mark Style 1 style

                                        • By default :

                                          • The foreground color is not available and its color is a light grey

                                          • The background color is available and its color is a light blue ( 0,255,255 )

                                        e69182b5-fda9-47d5-bf7d-92a233dd3b87-image.png

                                        • Now, switch from the Default ( stylers.xml) theme to the next Bespin theme

                                        • And switch back, immediately, to the Default ( stylers.xml) theme

                                        • Re-select the Mark Style 1 style

                                        • This time :

                                          • As before, the background color is available and its color is a light blue ( 0,255,255 )

                                          • But, the foreground color is, now, available and its color is a dark red ( 204,0,0 ) ??!!

                                        9c1cb232-22b7-4446-9840-6e3f529978c3-image.png

                                        Best regards,

                                        guy038

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                                        • PeterJonesP
                                          PeterJones @guy038
                                          last edited by

                                          @guy038 ,

                                          Weird. When I use my normal v7.8.5 portable, it never shows Global Styles > Mark 1 with greyed foreground. If I take a fresh v7.8.5 portable, it does start with Mark 1 greyed, and if I follow your path to Bespin and back, it gets ungreyed when I’m back in default sylers.xml.

                                          Weird.

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                                          • guy038G
                                            guy038
                                            last edited by guy038

                                            Hello, @peterjones, and All

                                            I just redid the test of my previous post, with :

                                            • A new fresh dezipped 32 bits portable version of N++ v7.8.5 in a folder, without any additional plugin other than default ones

                                            • The new dezipped 32 bits portable version of N++ v7.8.6 in an other folder, that I haven’t downloaded, yet

                                            And I confirm the previous behaviour, with the two colors available, both for v7.8.5 and v7.8.6

                                            5dc47e85-2e2e-44f2-a13a-d5143337eead-image.png


                                            Mauy be, once more, it could be only related to my Win XP configuration ?

                                            BTW, to get the initial colors and default behaviour of the Style Configurator, simply, stop and restart Notepad++

                                            Best Regards,

                                            guy038

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