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FPC IDE on Windows: Configuring colours

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Frank Peelo

Hi

If this is the wrong list for asking about the IDE, I would be glad if you could point me at the right list.

I use FreePascal for occasional programming. However, lately I find the colours in the IDE difficult to read - especially integer constants which appear dark blue-grey on a dark blue background. Maybe it's because I'm using an LCD. Yes, that must be it. (Getting old? me? :-> )

The user guide says there should be an option under Options|Environment to change colours, like the one in BP7. But there is no such option on my setup here.

My questions are:

How do I change the IDE colours? Is there some configuration I need to change to enable the dialogue?

I am using Windows XP. The version (from Help|About) is:

FreePascal IDE for Win32 for i386
Target CPU: i386
Version 1.0.10 2008/08/03
(Compiler Version 2.2.2)
(Debugger GDB 6.2.1)

which I think should be the latest version of everything. I downloaded and installed FPC and the IDE (fpc-2.2.2.i386-win32.exe) yesterday, thinking the Colours option must have been added more recently than the version I was using before that. I do not recall what version I had installed before yesterday; I uninstalled it before installing the latest version, and I did not keep a copy of the installation file.

Thanks

Frank

Marco van de Voort
to Frank Peelo

In our previous episode, Frank Peelo said:

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My questions are: How do I change the IDE colours? Is there some configuration I need to change to enable the dialogue?

Afaik the trouble is that the colorselection widget was not available in the "Free Vision" (based on free code), while in the pre 2000 (Turbo Vision) it was available. The IDE still has support for it, albeit under (disabled) ifdef.

So what is needed is a colorsel unit. Maybe if you are really able, you could try to use/port TP's unit, but better would be to start making an own.

The IDE is currently only maintained, and new development hasn't happened in several years. There are currently 70 mantis (bugtracker) tickets open for the IDE. (though many are not real bugs but "features").

Some help from interested individuals would be very welcome.

Frank Peelo
to Marco van de Voort
Marco van de Voort wrote 6 lines
In our previous episode, Frank Peelo said: >My questions are: > > How do I change the IDE colours? Is there some configuration I need to > change to enable the dialogue?

Hi Marco, hope you're keeping well!

Afaik the trouble is that the colorselection widget was not available in the "Free Vision" (based on free code), while in the pre 2000 (Turbo Vision) it was available. The IDE still has support for it, albeit under (disabled) ifdef.

Ah. So it's the user guide that is not up to date. I had seen a message that the widget was not free, but thought the problem had been solved since when I saw it in the current user guide.

Fair enough.

So what is needed is a colorsel unit. Maybe if you are really able, you could try to use/port TP's unit, but better would be to start making an own.

Once upon a time I thought I had a clue about Pascal. Today I had to look up the syntax of the Case statement... and I don't even get to watch Television these days, never mind Turbovision! So I'll have to pass on that, sorry.

Frank