#34 Make indentation guides less obstrusive

[Christoph Zwerschke]

The indentation guides look too obtrusive in my
opinion, they are too much disctracting from the code
if you have several levels of indentation. I liked how
they look in SciTe, much less obstrusive. If you don't
think of them, you don't notice them, but when you need
them, they are there. That's exactly how it should be.

[Christoph Zwerschke]

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(I am speaking about DrPython and SciTe on WinXP; maybe it's
different on other platforms?).

[Daniel Pozmanter]

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Browsing the stc docs, it looks like that is just the way
indentation guides look in wxPython. If you can find a way
to make them look nicer, I'd be more than happy to add it in.

[Christoph Zwerschke]

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Good news. I have found a way to set the color of the dots
of the indentation guides. The default is black, while SciTe
uses a grey value of #c0c0c0 which is much less obstrusive.

You can change this in DrPython by inserting the following line

self.StyleSetForeground(wx.stc.STC_STYLE_INDENTGUIDE,
wx.LIGHT_GREY)

in the module drText.py

right after the line

self.SetCaretWidth(self.grandparent.prefs.doccaretwidth)

Of course, you have to find the proper place for this line
in the code. Probably you should make it also configurable
along with the other settings under

Preferences -> Document -> Edit Text Styles

However, wx.LIGHT_GREY should be the default color. It is
really much nicer. The guides are there, but they aren't
irritating any more.

(BTW, the default background and foreground color for
comments should be also much lighter. With the default
settings, comments look more prominent than the code itself.
But it should be the other way round, the code should stick
out most prominently, and the comments should be somewhat
"greyed out".)

[Daniel Pozmanter]

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Many thanks, this will be in the next release.