[Qt-creator] About the cursor color

[Alan Westbrook]

I agree with Matthias, having different elements have different background
colors is probably a bad idea to use in practice as it would probably
introduce too much cognitive load, like reading a ransom note.

I vaguely remember they did this in some parts of the Commodore Vic 20, but
haven't seen anything like that nice then, probably for this very reason.

Alan

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:02 PM, <matthias.ettrich at nokia.com> wrote:

> Different background colors for certain elements in the syntax highlighter
> is a bad idea anway. It looks noisy and it limits what can be highlighted
> with extra selections. The color schemes we ship should not do that, I'd
> rather disallow it in the editor completely. At a bare minimum the  the
> schemes should not pick background colors which do not contrast with the
> standard text color.
>
> The alternatives are worse:
>
> a) like open office: the cursor just "inverts" the pixels underneath. Plain
> ugly, looks like painting artefacts.
> b) like mozilla's rich text edit: use the text color for the cursor. This
> means the cursor also in the normal scheme changes color wherever it is.
> Also confusing.
>
> What else can we do? Flip between standard foreground and background
> depending on what gives the best contrast at a certain position?
>
> Matthias
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 1:50 AM
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>
> Hi,
> > At least for me, using Qt Creator on X11, the text cursor is the same
> > colour as the standard text (for example with the dark FakeVim theme,
> > the cursor is gray).
> >
> > In another post you said you were using a black background, but surely
> > your text isn't also set to black in that case.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bjørn
> >
> I just notice that what you say is true. But the cursor will take the
> color of the normal text (usually black over white) and, when you change
> to another time of text (say a comment with yellow text over black) the
> cursor still keeps the normal text color (black), therefore becomes
> "invisible".
>
> I'm sure this is not the expected behavior, right?
>
> Regards,
> Paulo
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