Description Nick Edgar 2002-03-11 14:37:15 EST

Build 20020307

EG says:
finally... now the variables view can use red text labels for changed values 
rather
than greying out the icons.

From the eclipse newsgroup:

In the latest Integration and Stable builds this is not possible.  However,
we have just released code for Windows that will do this (it is in the
nightly builds but I recommend you wait for the next integration build).
There is new API on TableItem and TreeItem called setForeground() and
setBackground().  The implementation for this functionality on motif, photon
and gtk will also be available shortly.

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Darin, I got exited too soon, using colors in table items also needs JFace 
support...

Nick, are there any plans to surface this new support through JFace 
Viewers/LabelProviders?
We have some good uses of this in JDT.

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NE replies:

This would be good to add.  How about:

/**
 * Extends <code>IBaseLabelProvider</code> with the methods to provide
 * the foreground and background color for the label of a given element.
 * Used by table viewers and tree viewers.
 * <p>
 * This interface is normally implemented by a class also implementing
 * <code>ILabelProvider</code> or <code>ITableLabelProvider</code>.
 */
interface ILabelColorProvider extends IBaseLabelProvider {
    /**
     * Returns the foreground color to use for the label of the given element,
     * or <code>null</code> to use the default foreground color.
     */
    Color getForeground(Object element);

    /**
     * Returns the background color to use for the label of the given element,
     * or <code>null</code> to use the default background color.
     */
    Color getBackground(Object element);
}