Re: [platform-swt-dev] API for setting the selection color of a Text fie

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Thomas. I read this as "no you cannot set the selection color
via SWT API".

Best regards, Lars

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 7:08 PM, Thomas Singer <ts-swt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just keep the background of the text fields on OS X brighter, because the
> selection color is bright (the screenshot seems to show non-default
> selection color which is light-blue).
>
> But your screenshot shows another nasty problem on OS X: the rendering of
> the combobox with the bold top line:
>
> <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=508809>
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> On 20.12.2016 18:42, Lars Vogel wrote:
>>
>> Here is the Mac screenshot.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Friends of SWT,
>>>
>>> Olivier Prouvost from Opcoach pointed out to me that the selection
>>> color on the Mac looks horrible in the dark theme. See screenshot
>>> after the ID field.
>>>
>>> This looks relatively good on Ubuntu, see SelectionColorInUbuntu
>>> screenshot.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to control this color via SWT API? If not, would it
>>> possible to consider this for future API enhancements?
>>>
>>> Best regards, Lars
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