Foreground options for Selected text?
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@JohnnyJim-J said in Foreground options for Selected text?:
It’s been almost THREE YEARS since this was last replied to and I don’t see any changes on that very basic missing feature that requires hacks described here.
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Am I correct in guessing the only reason that hasn’t been done so far, is that it would require a complete rewrite of the basic Notepad++ code?
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Isn’t it high time for Notepad++ developers to make this fundamental, basic missing feature a priority?As far as technical issues are concerned, I don’t know if there’s a reason it would be hard to be implemented or not. But if it does require a complete rewrite, then it’s not going to happen.
As far as practical reasons, it probably comes back to one return question: Did anyone involved in this thread ever create an official feature request? (I’ll give you a hint, posting in this forum is not an official feature request; see the FAQs for more.) If not, then that is the essential reason why. If an official request is ever made, then at that point, the developers can decide whether or not to prioritize working on it, depending on how useful they think it is.
Sorry if it comes as a rude wake up after three years
It’s not any form of wake up to the developers, because they’re basically uninvolved in the vast majority of discussions in this Community Forum, so your post likely isn’t on their radar at all.
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@PeterJones said in Foreground options for Selected text?:
As far as technical issues are concerned, I don’t know if there’s a reason it would be hard to be implemented or not. But if it does require a complete rewrite, then it’s not going to happen.
As far as practical reasons, it probably comes back to one return question: Did anyone involved in this thread ever create an official feature request? (I’ll give you a hint, posting in this forum is not an official feature request; see the FAQs for more.) If not, then that is the essential reason why. If an official request is ever made, then at that point, the developers can decide whether or not to prioritize working on it, depending on how useful they think it is.
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It’s not any form of wake up to the developers, because they’re basically uninvolved in the vast majority of discussions in this Community Forum, so your post likely isn’t on their radar at all.Thanks for the quick checkup 👍 Too bad the developers are not checking the forum like they do with other apps, where the developer checks in on users and gets involved directly, implementing features later on depending on demand and whether it interferes with general operations or not (ie whether it’s a bug, a feature request or whether a ‘problem’ is not in fact a ‘feature’).
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@JohnnyJim-J said in Foreground options for Selected text?:
Too bad the developers are not checking the forum like they do with other apps
I think the developers spend their time in the official issues list.
There are at this moment 1273 open issues.
So I think they’ve got enough to do there without monitoring here as well.
In a perfect world they’d have time to do both, but… -
Of course, developers could have seen this issue in the issues list in either of these two places:
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Interesting.
On a new machine: up till now, foreground for selected text has been available, and worked- might have been for a theme other than default, though.
Comment at the end of issue 3397 introduces 11567, great too, so long as it is enabled. :P -
I can’t tell from your comment if you are having troubles or they’ve been solved. If you’re still having troubles, post again in order to clarify what they are?
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@Alan-Kilborn Hi Alan, just a concern over why the Selected Text Colour button for foreground in the Style Configurator (Global Styles) is disabled. For comparison, the button for background is enabled, but the font styles are disabled. If you could point me to where this is explained, appreciated.
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@Laurie-Stearn said in Foreground options for Selected text?:
why the Selected Text Colour button for foreground in the Style Configurator (Global Styles) is disabled
It needs a special file created in order to be enabled; see this section of the user manual: https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/config-files/#:~:text=enableSelectFgColor.xml
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@Alan-Kilborn Good one, thanks.
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