Any way to make selected tabs more distinct from the rest?

[commodore]

Is there any way to make the selected folder tabs on both panes visually more distinct from the other tabs? It was fine until Windows 7, don't remember much about Windows 10, but on Windows 11 the selected tabs are just a tiny bit more bright than the others. Sometimes you have to look hard to discern which one is currently selected.

[hi5]

You can add

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ActiveTabColor=16750641

to your wincmd.ini [Colors] section (manually by editing it in notepad.exe for example) - now you will have blue gradient active tabs.

[commodore]

Thanks, looks better. Is there a "legend" on color codes/numbers somewhere? It doesn't look like a rgb code.

[Dalai]

2commodore
It's BGR, similar to RGB, and and it's documented in TC's help file, section 4.b (part 2). Example:

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BackColor=16777215
Background color (RGB: red+256*green+65536*blue, each value in range 0..255, or hex in form $BBGGRR)

Regards
Dalai

[Usher]

It is RGB value saved as a decimal number. Convert it to six digit hex number and divide into three parts in reverse order (BGR).
In this case 16750641=0xFF9831 which gives (remember about reverse order!):
R=0x31=49
G=0x98=152
B=0xFF=255
or RGB=(49,152,255)

[hlloyge]

You can add

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ActiveTabColor=16750641

to your wincmd.ini [Colors] section (manually by editing it in notepad.exe for example) - now you will have blue gradient active tabs.

Just to mention, it doesn't work with dark scheme.

[funkymonk]

BTW: It would be great if TC could accept the #RRGGBB format for colors in the ini file...
(I will put this into the suggestions forum.)

[sqa_wizard]

Just to mention, it doesn't work with dark scheme.

Still works fine here.
Note:
- For light mode you have to add the setting to section [Colors]
- For dark mode you have to add the setting to section [ColorsDark]

[commodore]

How about the gradient, is it always enabled on tabs?
Also, quite a while ago, I used TWinKey Utilisator plugin for configuring colors. Any idea if it's still compatible with current TC (I see it hasn't been updated in a while)?

[white]

How about the gradient, is it always enabled on tabs?

Has just been answered.

All tab colors are gradient. I did try with solid colors and it looked absolutely horrible.

[hi5]

All tab colors are gradient. I did try with solid colors and it looked absolutely horrible.

Personal preference of course, but I don't think this yellow tab looks horrible - for comparison the blue gradient next to it https://github.com/hi5/_resources/blob/master/tab.png

[hlloyge]

Still works fine here.
Note:
- For light mode you have to add the setting to section [Colors]
- For dark mode you have to add the setting to section [ColorsDark]

that's what I missed, thanks, works now.