Scripting the Tab Background Color

[Mr_Inc]

Is it possible to script the #542 Command to set the tab background color?

Thanks

[highend]

Internal command IDs can't be modified if you're asking that this command sets the background color to some user defined value...

[Mr_Inc]

Thank you. I thought that was the case!

Any other way to do it 'programmatically" via a script?

[highend]

tab() can do it, I guess. Never tried that though

"textcolor", "backcolor" = sets the custom text/background color of a tab

data: color value in hexadecimal format (RRGGBB) (if empty then any custom color is removed)

index: tab to color (if missing then current tab)

return: index of the affected tab

[klownboy]

Try something like this using sendkeys:

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  seltab '11';  //whatever tab index you're changing left most tab is '1' and so on
  sendkeys "D7D7FF{Enter}";#542;  //D7D7FF is in the hexadecimal format for the color code you want

You could automate it further and change a bunch of tab colors.

Edit: The better way to do it is using SC tab() as highend recommended above. The screen could flicker a little using sendkeys especially on a slower computer.

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 tab("backcolor","FFB9DC", 6);   // '6' in this case is the index 

[Mr_Inc]

Is there a similar feature to script for the colors of the breadcrumb on each Pane?

[klownboy]

There is no tab() like command for the breadcrumb bar. You can set the colors via SC setkey command to modify the XYplorer.ini file but changing these values with setkey will require a save.

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//setkey value, key, section, [INIfile], [flags]   from the help file
  setkey "FFB9DC", "clrCrumb1ActiveBack", "Settings";  // BC active background
  setkey "FFB9DC", "clrCrumb2ActiveBack", "Settings";  // BC inactive background

This will change the background of the active pane BC1 background. The screen may flicker slightly but it will change immediately:

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 sendkeys "{HOME}ccc{tab 27}^aFFB9DC{Enter}";#600;

For the active BC2 pane:

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 sendkeys "{HOME}ccc{tab 31}^aFFB9DC{Enter}";#600;

You can get the other inactive BC background color "keys" from the XYplorer.ini file.

[Mr_Inc]

Thanks.