Option to set the Text color of highlighted folders in the tree

[jaywalker32]

Currently, you can set the highlight (background) color of highlighted folders in the tree.

It would be nice if we could also set the text (foreground) color. This would increase the range of available colors on which the text would be legible.

[admin]

That's true. I might do it.

PS: Well, it's much more work than I had thought. At the moment it does not look worth it I'm afraid.

[admin]

I added it. (v20.20.0005) Took the whole day, and it's hot. But I listened to the Hollywood Vampires on heavy rotation and that made me do it.

There is no real GUI at the moment (that's easy to add later), you can only define the text color via Tools | List Management | Highlighted Folders...

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General format: path>textcolor,backcolor

000000 stands for "default color", so you cannot define pitch black. If both textcolor AND backcolor are 000000, then backcolor is set to yellow (or what you defined in Configuration | Colors and Styles | Colors | Highlighted). Else the default colors are "background color" and "text color".

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E:\Test\Hilites\Alice\>000000,000000
E:\Test\Hilites\Cooper\>000000,BA4422
E:\Test\Hilites\Hollywood\>BA4422,000000
E:\Test\Hilites\Vampires\>FFFFFF,8FDA95

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(Colors in the tree are slightly dimmed because I use that tweak DarkAdaptive)

I'll talk about it in the change log once I added it to the real GUI...

[jaywalker32]

Thanks! Just tested it and it works great!

Now I can really go to town with the color coding.

[admin]

I'll talk about it in the change log once I added it to the real GUI...

Well, is anybody (apart from jaywalker32) using this? Might be time to add it to the GUI...

[klownboy]

It seems Toggle Highlighted Folder (from the Favorites menu), as stated in the Help file toggles the "current" folder which is fine and isn't tied to Apply Highlighting in Tools > Customize Tree (i.e., the toggle only works for the current folder and isn't toggling all highlighted folders). However, toggling the color does override an existing color listed for that folder in Highlighted Folders > List Management since the new highlight color gets an entry after the original color listed for that folder. Not a big deal, just curious if that's expected. If the folder has an assigned color, should toggling then toggle the assigned color and not the generic highlight?

When we highlight folders, the highlighting is done in the tree only. Why not carry it over to the list as well?

[admin]

1) This works as designed.

2) The idea of this feature was to make browsing the tree easier. No point in carrying it over to the list.