I have been playing around with NPP stylers for a while now. Few of them are freely available on the forum. I'm particularly drawn to darker themes.[Coming from a "vim" background, it is understandable :-)].
Now my problem with themes having dark background is this:
1> When you do no select anything on NPP, and hover your mouse around, the pointer turns into a "|" kind of icon and is black in color.
2> Because of this, it is not visible at all and is a slight nuisance while editing.
3> I understand changing my entire windows theme would work, but before that I would like to know if there is a way to change this in NPP itself?
thanks,
Sam
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I was able to get this working. It seems to be a problem with the Windows XP pointer styles. I changed to another pointer scheme and then back to my default scheme. This worked and made the "I" text selection icon visible even on darker backgrounds.
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Sam
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I'm not sure about earlier versions of windows, but in WinXP (and later), when the windows mouse cursor switches to the "I" text selection icon, it usually takes the inverse of whatever is behind it. So if it is over a white background, it will be black, if it is over a black background it should show up as white. If it is over a dark blue background (like I use in my NP++ styles), it shows up yellow.
It may be possible to add a feature to Notepad++ to do this automatically (change the mouse cursor to an inverse-color icon when mouseover the text area), however I assume that windows should automatically do that.
Alternatively, the color of the "|" cursor or caret symbol which shows you where you are typing is configurable as a global style (Caret Color), and needs to be explicitly set to something which contrasts your background.
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thanks for your response. I'm looking for the color of the "I" text selection icon rather than the "|" caret symbol. Windows somehow just doesn't do that automatically for me. I'm having a tough time with my dark background theme.
Re,
Sam
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Hello folks,
I have been playing around with NPP stylers for a while now. Few of them are freely available on the forum. I'm particularly drawn to darker themes.[Coming from a "vim" background, it is understandable :-)].
Now my problem with themes having dark background is this:
1> When you do no select anything on NPP, and hover your mouse around, the pointer turns into a "|" kind of icon and is black in color.
2> Because of this, it is not visible at all and is a slight nuisance while editing.
3> I understand changing my entire windows theme would work, but before that I would like to know if there is a way to change this in NPP itself?
thanks,
Sam
Folks,
I was able to get this working. It seems to be a problem with the Windows XP pointer styles. I changed to another pointer scheme and then back to my default scheme. This worked and made the "I" text selection icon visible even on darker backgrounds.
Re,
Sam
I'm not sure about earlier versions of windows, but in WinXP (and later), when the windows mouse cursor switches to the "I" text selection icon, it usually takes the inverse of whatever is behind it. So if it is over a white background, it will be black, if it is over a black background it should show up as white. If it is over a dark blue background (like I use in my NP++ styles), it shows up yellow.
It may be possible to add a feature to Notepad++ to do this automatically (change the mouse cursor to an inverse-color icon when mouseover the text area), however I assume that windows should automatically do that.
Alternatively, the color of the "|" cursor or caret symbol which shows you where you are typing is configurable as a global style (Caret Color), and needs to be explicitly set to something which contrasts your background.
Hello Airdrik,
thanks for your response. I'm looking for the color of the "I" text selection icon rather than the "|" caret symbol. Windows somehow just doesn't do that automatically for me. I'm having a tough time with my dark background theme.
Re,
Sam