Brace matching color customization

Hi there,

I know this not a big deal for most people, but for me it is. I'm using an inverted color scheme, that is, light text on dark background, and the light blue color used for brace matching is effectively hiding the brace. I've attached a screenshot.

Any chance of adding an option for that in the SQL Tab from the Preferences dialog?

Code wise shouldn't be too difficult, all the supporting code is already there.


Thanks a lot,
Mircea.

Forgot the "from" in the screenshot, stop laughing :p

There is just so many options already in the preferences dialog.

What about auto-detecting the color for bracket background highlighting, by using the inverse color of the brackets color?

Define "inverse color". That's not as easy as it sounds.
On the other hand, you already have a syntax highlighting mechanism in place, why not using it for brace match coloring? That's how every IDE is doing it. And, frankly, that's what it is, a syntax highlighting option. It would be just an extra option in that combobox you have for SQL elements. I've attached a screenshot, just to be clear about my idea.

Instead of determining the color by some weird algorithm, just take it from the syntax highlighting options. Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy :)

And even if you implement some color inversion algorithm, it will give you some average results. Example: what's the inverse color of black? One would say white. Yet, the strongest contrast as perceived by human eye is between black and yellow, not black and white.

Also, using a color inversion algorithm might get a result conflicting with the color of the caret. Plus, you also change the color of the opening brace, which IMHO is a bad choice. The way I see it, it would be much better to give the user the possibility to tinker with the background color, without any other alteration :)

Agree. Inversing black to white would make the highlighting invisible on a white background.

Done in r5014

You're awesome. Here goes another 10 EURGreat project, great support.

Thanks a lot! :)