Scroll bar colour please
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Hi, I am using dark theme. I would like to be able to change the colour of the vertical scroll bar on the main editor. Specifically, the bit you need to click on in the slider to move the scroll bar, is not defined enough. I am having trouble seeing it. I would like to make this brighter. Is this even possible? Thanks.
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@James-Thompson said in Scroll bar colour please:
I would like to be able to change the colour of the vertical scroll bar on the main editor.
I don’t think that’s possible. The style rendering is basically handed off to Windows, and it’s only effective when the installed version is at least build 17763, or Win10 1809.
As for “the bit you need to click on”:
The “thumb” has different names in different environments: on the Mac OS X 10.4 it is called a “scroller”; on the Java platform it is called “thumb” or “knob”; Microsoft’s .NET documentation refers to it as “scroll box” or “scroll thumb”; in other environments it is called “elevator”, “quint”, “puck”, “wiper” or “grip”; in certain environments where browsers use agnostic language to the scrollbar terminology, the thumb is referred to as the ‘pea’ for vertical movement of the bar and still use ‘puck’ for horizontal movement.
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@rdipardo Thanks for a detailed reply. I thought that might be the case.
Having looked at it more closely, (lets call it the thumb, though I really like pea too!) - The thumb goes a little brighter when the mouse is over it, and it goes even more brighter when the thumb is grabbed. I wonder if the control can be customised in a future version, just to make it brighter before it is clicked. On a very large file, the thumb becomes very small, and I think the issue for me is that the default thumb colour is the same as the main text background. If the room is bright (with natural light, which I know is unusual for a programmer), then it can be hard to see it. But I would stress this is a minor issue and over all the product is fantastic.I suppose a work around for now, is to try to find it with the mouse, now I know that it will go brighter when the mouse is over it. Also of course, holding down the LMB on the scroll bar, will eventually bring the thumb under the mouse. Thanks again.
