Backgound color style

[keke]

How about adding the support of alternative backgound color (odd/even row color) style, just like ftprush (remote and local windows BG color can be set separately) and iTunes?

//bow

Ftprush snapshots:

Image: http://www.ftprush.com/images/screenshot/layout1.png

Image: http://www.ftprush.com/images/screenshot/colors.png

[djorge]

Very nice screenshots indeed. It would great to have TC with similar color panels.

Maybe TC7 has some surprises...

[Lefteous]

Alternate line colors can be set in TC 7:
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=71527#71527

[Clo]

2Lefteous

Hello Christian !

• With regard to the screenies shown above by keke, I think that the idea of different alternated BG colours
for local and remote dirs. is great ! But… (sigh…)

 VG
Claude
Clo

[Sheepdog]

• With regard to the screenies shown above by keke, I think that the idea of different alternated BG colours
for local and remote dirs. is great !

Support++

sheepdog

[djorge]

Alternate line colors can be set in TC 7

Christian, add different alternated BG colours for local and remote dirs plz. Its much more readable than using the same alternate colors in both pannels.

It should be easier to add this change since you already have alternate BG colours implemented.

[szlori]

It would also be nice to have the "active" panel's background different.
Actually a good solution I saw, is to have the background of the INACTIVE panel automatically "darkened" by the app.
So you anyway select only 1 (or 2 for alternate) color, but will still have a (slightly) darker color for the inactive panel.

[Hacker]

Two topics get mixed up:
local vs. remote
active vs. inactive

Roman

[szlori]

Two topics get mixed up:
local vs. remote
active vs. inactive

Roman

Well, I felt is close enough to the topic, to not open a new thread for it...
But yes, what I wrote about is different.

[XPEHOPE3KA]

2szlori
But what you wrote doesn't contradict with what was already written. Remote panel may be either active or inactive, right?

[szlori]

2szlori
But what you wrote doesn't contradict with what was already written. Remote panel may be either active or inactive, right?

Exactly.
Remote panel will get "darkened" with its own color(s) when inactive.
(Or i should use the official TC terms:
active = source
inactive= target)

[Clo]

2szlori

Hello !

• I'm not against your proposal, but I guess that it's a bit complicated to implement
with regard to the current Options page you'll have in TC 7.0 …

• To distinguish easily the active¦inactive panel, I set here very contrasted colours in Windows.
- So, I can see the titles-bars of the current dirs. showing the state of each panel.
- Alas, TC doesn't know to display the shaded tones if you set 2 colours per state,
hence you get only the left-end colour for each state…

 KR
Claude
Clo

[szlori]

2szlori

Hello !

• I'm not against your proposal, but I guess that it's a bit complicated to implement
with regard to the current Options page you'll have in TC 7.0 …

There would be only 1 additional check-box: "darken inactive pane's background"

• To distinguish easily the active¦inactive panel, I set here very contrasted colours in Windows.
- So, I can see the titles-bars of the current dirs. showing the state of each panel.
- Alas, TC doesn't know to display the shaded tones if you set 2 colours per state,
hence you get only the left-end colour for each state…

Yes, title bar is fine, but this way (with background color of the file list) the whole pane could show the state.
I'm not exactly sure what you try to say about the colors, but it is really easy to algorithmically create a darker version of any color (unless the color is pure black).

[Clo]

2szlori

There would be only 1 additional check-box: "darken inactive pane's background"

Unfortunately, this is not a so simple as you say…

• From a single tick-box, TC ought calculate the darker colours according to a certain percentage (by default or configurable) with regard to the active panel ones, and though I'm not a programmer, I guess it's not quite easy…

- At the very outside, it should be possible to add two dropdown colour-boxes on the Configuration >> Colours page, there is room enough to enlarge the section and the “Example” preview (BTW : Still not translatable for ages !).
- So, the user could set the wished darker colours by this way, not too boring…
- This could be performed also using INI entries - hence, no change on the GUI -
but indeed it's less handy for the average users…

 KR
Claude
Clo

[szlori]

2szlori

There would be only 1 additional check-box: "darken inactive pane's background"

Unfortunately, this is not a so simple as you say…

• From a single tick-box, TC ought calculate the darker colours according to a certain percentage (by default or configurable) with regard to the active panel ones, and though I'm not a programmer, I guess it's not quite easy…

I'm a programmer, so I know it's quite easy...
The "percentage" of darkening doesn't need to be configurable.
At least not from the GUI, an INI file parameter would be more than enough.