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    andrecool-68 @PeterJones
    last edited by Mar 21, 2020, 10:36 PM

    @PeterJones
    Try to call this window with this command:
    rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,Advanced,@Advanced

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      guy038
      last edited by guy038 Mar 21, 2020, 10:56 PM Mar 21, 2020, 10:50 PM

      Hi, @alan-kilborn, @andrecool-68, @peterjones and All,

      Peter, you’re right ! The color of current function, in the Function List panel, seems to be controlled from the colors of the ButtonFace key !

      Here is my \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors, on my Win XP laptop :

      40b29281-0365-47d4-9da1-0e622a4cbdfb-image.png

      As you can see, Peter, only two keys ( ButtonFace and MenuBar ) have colors 236, 233, 216, in my Win XP configuration

      We can see that the different keys are always the same, between win XP and Win 10! ! But, strangely, no reference to a 3D Objects key, seems to be visible in registry ?

      Best Regards,

      guy038

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        PeterJones
        last edited by Mar 21, 2020, 11:36 PM

        @andrecool-68 ,

        Nope, that just launches dd05274f-e79a-4798-a7f0-ff29c8abed38-image.png , which doesn’t allow setting the individual colors.

        @guy038 ,

        Nice to know that same key works on both WinXP and Win10 for controlling it. My guess is that the “button” is the default “3d object” in old windows nomenclature, and they just stuck with that naming convention, even as things changed through the decades.

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          Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
          last edited by Mar 22, 2020, 12:14 PM

          @PeterJones said in "Function List" current function highlighting is too light?:

          Nice to know that same key works on both WinXP and Win10 for controlling it.

          I guess having WinXP still around does indeed have some usefulness! :-)

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            Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
            last edited by Mar 22, 2020, 1:20 PM

            @Alan-Kilborn

            or by using a dark theme :-D

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              Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
              last edited by Mar 22, 2020, 2:33 PM

              @Ekopalypse

              by using a dark theme

              Well now, THERE’s some contrast!

              But I’m confused, is that your display when you’ve just clicked on something in the Function List, or is that merely the function you are in as you are navigating the editor window? (Neither appears to be the case from the data shown?)

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                Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                last edited by Mar 22, 2020, 6:26 PM

                @Alan-Kilborn

                In this screenshot the focus was at the editor and I was moving the caret.
                This is how it looks like when the function list has the focus and an item is selected

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                  Alan Kilborn
                  last edited by Alan Kilborn Mar 24, 2020, 2:42 PM Mar 24, 2020, 2:41 PM

                  I finally got some time to look deeper into the responses here. Thanks to everyone for their input.

                  Peter said:

                  I’ll stick with normals. Whether @Alan-Kilborn wants to go that route is up to him.

                  I took Peter’s “advice” and changed my ButtonFace to (224, 224, 224). This indeed makes the “inactive-but-inside” function in the list have better noticeability, without having any other negatives elsewhere in the Notepad++ (or Windows) UI.

                  I’m keeping that setting! :-)

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                    PeterJones @Alan Kilborn
                    last edited by Nov 17, 2021, 2:05 PM

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                      Alan Kilborn
                      last edited by Nov 17, 2021, 2:09 PM

                      More on the topic of this thread is found HERE.

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