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Tab Colors, Folder Colors

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Greetings,

001
could there be a way in the future,
to color TABS of directories
(i mean the tabs under drive letters - c:\ )

by similar scheme
as we have it in options menu:
Configuration/Options/Color

002
im done with apple osx for life,
and they have an option
to color code individual folders
by right clicking

i hope you're all doing well,
much respect to you <3
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Re: Tab Colors, Folder Colors

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Oh, this is good! Tab/dir colours would be handy, but latter (unfortunately) isn't a native property of NT / NTFS.
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Tab colours: Search the forum for ActiveTabColor

Dir/folder colours:
1. Look at configuration, Display, Color, Define colours by Filetype where you can set colours based on saved searches; or more flexibile
2. Create a file comment (ctrl-z) on a folder, add something like "green" or "yellow", now use this with a search rule and autoview to automatically colour a folder / file name, based on its comment
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Highlight current tab script (single tab)
TabTools script (many tabs)
TWinKey (colorize tabs manually)
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2fanboy
You can use View Modes in conjunction with Auto Switch Mode for this
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Re: Tab Colors, Folder Colors

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2petermad
You can use View Modes in conjunction with Auto Switch Mode for this
Are there examples of when that would be useful?
FYI, I did see how to implement that option:

Code: Select all

[ViewModeSwitch]
[ViewModes]
0_name=<default>
0_icon=
0_options=-1|-1|0||-1|-1|-1|-1|-1
1_name=testViewMode
1_commands=cm_ConfigViewModeSwitch
1_options=-1|-1|0||65280|0|15790335|-1|-1
Assuming that I implemented that option correctly, I just don't understand how to use it.

FYI, I am particularly interested in improving legibility when I use
Configuration. Options. Color. "Define colors by file type..."
I do realize that Ghisler considered and rejected allowing changing more than the font color. (e.g. bold, background color)
And FYI I am using a monospaced font so Bolding would not change letter width.
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Re: Tab Colors, Folder Colors

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nn1k3: If you defined a ViewMode only, you can select it via right click on the active tab.

If you want a ViewMode to be activated automatically, you have to define a condition for this as ViewModeSwitch.

e.g. you have a folder "D:\download\" and want to activate ViewMode 1 when you enter this folder

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[ViewModeSwitch]
0_rules=+D:\download\*.*
0_mode=1

[ViewModes]
0_name=<default>
0_icon=
0_options=-1|-1|0||-1|-1|-1|-1|-1
1_name=testViewMode
1_commands=cm_ConfigViewModeSwitch
1_options=-1|-1|0||65280|0|15790335|-1|-1
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Re: Tab Colors, Folder Colors

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thanks lads!
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