6.12.5 Colors

Almost all elements of the IDE such as borders input elds, buttons and so on can have their color set in this dialog. The dialog sets the colors for all elements at once, i.e. it is not so that the color of one particular button can be set.

The syntax highlighting colors for the editor windows of the IDE can also be set in this dialog. The colors dialog is shown in gure (6.36).

Figure 6.36:

The colors dialog

The following elements are visible in the color dialog:

Group

Here the group to be customized is displayed; A group is a specic window or series of windows in the editor. A special group is Syntax which sets the colors for syntax highlighting.

Browser: Sets the colors for the symbol browser window.
Clock: Sets the colors for the clock in the menu.
Desktop: Sets the colors for the desktop.
Dialogs: Sets the colors for the dialog windows.
Editor: Sets the colors for the editor windows.
Help: Sets the colors for the help windows.
Menus: Sets the colors used in the menus.
Syntax: Sets the colors used when performing syntax highlighting in the editor windows.

item

Here the item for the current group can be selected. The foreground and background of this item can be set using the color selectors on the right of the dialog.

Foreground

Sets the foreground color of the selected item.

background

Sets the background color of the selected item.

Sample text

This shows the colors of the selected item in a sample text.

Setting a good color scheme is important especially for syntax highlighting; a good syntax highlighting scheme helps in eliminating errors when typing, without needing to compile the sources.

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