Scintilla Background Color

[Imagine Programming]

Hey everyone,

I'm using a scintilla control for a school project, however I've been wanting to
change the background color and also let the user define the colors.

Anyhow, I can set the background color for styles, but that will only set the
background color for that line of text the style applies to, not the overall
background color.

Does anyone know a message to send to the scintilla control I can use to set
the backgroundcolor for the whole (editor part) control?

[Centauri Soldier]

I know $h!t about scintilla but I found this, is this what you're looking for, Bas?

http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDo...#OtherSettings

[Imagine Programming]

I know $h!t about scintilla but I found this, is this what you're looking for, Bas?

http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDo...#OtherSettings

Unfortunately not, thanks.
I've also been looking over that whole dam documentation, I've even tried setting the background
color for each seperate style and applying SCI_STYLESETEOLFILLED on the default style. Didn't work

[RizlaUK]

Now your talking my language

you need #STYLE_DEFAULT in SCI_StyleSetBack, that sets the overall background colour, but style and line/selection colours override the default

any scintilla questions you have, im your man, i got that thing 100% mapped

[Imagine Programming]

Now your talking my language

you need #STYLE_DEFAULT in SCI_StyleSetBack, that sets the overall background colour, but style and line/selection colours override the default

any scintilla questions you have, im your man, i got that thing 100% mapped

Thanks mate, I already send that message with STYLE_DEFAULT, however it'll only colorize the parts containing
characters, not the whole control. But that's probably because other styles overwrite them. Also, if I for example
set the backcolor of another style (let's say comment) too, it'll only colorize the text-containing part and not the
white space around it.

So, my question is, do I have to customly draw the backgroundcolor? Or do I need to set the backgroundcolor for
all freaking styles?

We're talking the lua lexer btw It's a fun project I'll tell you about later :yes

[RizlaUK]

Or do I need to set the backgroundcolor for
all freaking styles?

afraid so mate, there's not a great deal of them tho, it shouldn't take too long to write a function to set all back styles

heres the macro i used in the old PX editor before i changed it all to xml (maybe its of some help)

Macro SetupScintilla(GadgetID)
    
    ;- Other 
    SCI_SetIndent(GadgetID,4)
    SCI_SetIndentationGuides(GadgetID,#True)
    SCI_UsePopUp(GadgetID,#False)    
        
    ;Error marker
    SCI_MarkerDefine(GadgetID,0,#SC_MARK_ARROW)
    SCI_MarkerSetBack(GadgetID,0,255)
    SCI_MarkerSetFore(GadgetID,0,0)
                
    ;- Font And Size 
    SCI_StyleSetFont(GadgetID,#STYLE_DEFAULT, @"Courier New")
    SCI_StyleSetSize(GadgetID,#STYLE_DEFAULT, 10) 
    
    ;- Margins
    ; number margin
    SCI_SetMarginTypen(GadgetID,0, #SC_MARGIN_NUMBER) 
    SCI_SetMarginWidthN(GadgetID,0, 37) 
    ; sep
    SCI_SetMarginTypen(GadgetID,1, #SC_MARGIN_SYMBOL)     
    SCI_SetMarginWidthN(GadgetID,1, 18) 
    ; folding margin
    SCI_SetMarginMaskN(GadgetID,2, #SC_MASK_FOLDERS) 
    SCI_SetMarginWidthN(GadgetID,2, 18) 
    SCI_SetMarginSensitiveN(GadgetID,2, #True) 
    
    ;- Choose folding icons 
    SCI_MarkerDefine(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPEN, #SC_MARK_CIRCLEMINUS) 
    SCI_MarkerDefine(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDER, #SC_MARK_CIRCLEPLUS) 
    SCI_MarkerDefine(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDERSUB, #SC_MARK_VLINE) 
    SCI_MarkerDefine(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDERTAIL, #SC_MARK_LCORNER) 
    SCI_MarkerDefine(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDEREND, #SC_MARK_CIRCLEPLUSCONNECTED) 
    SCI_MarkerDefine(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPENMID, #SC_MARK_CIRCLEMINUSCONNECTED) 
    SCI_MarkerDefine(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDERMIDTAIL, #SC_MARK_TCORNERCURVE) 
    
    ;- Choose folding icon colours 
    SCI_MarkerSetFore(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPEN, 14215660);RGB(236, 233, 216)) 
    SCI_MarkerSetBack(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPEN, RGB(128, 128, 128)) 
    SCI_MarkerSetFore(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDER, RGB(236, 233, 216)) 
    SCI_MarkerSetBack(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDER, RGB(128, 128, 128)) 
    SCI_MarkerSetBack(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDERSUB, RGB(128, 128, 128)) 
    SCI_MarkerSetBack(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDERTAIL, RGB(128, 128, 128)) 
    SCI_MarkerSetFore(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDEREND, RGB(236, 233, 216)) 
    SCI_MarkerSetBack(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDEREND, RGB(128, 128, 128)) 
    SCI_MarkerSetFore(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPENMID, RGB(236, 233, 216)) 
    SCI_MarkerSetBack(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDEROPENMID, RGB(128, 128, 128)) 
    SCI_MarkerSetBack(GadgetID,#SC_MARKNUM_FOLDERMIDTAIL, RGB(128, 128, 128)) 
    
    ;- lex setup 
    SCI_SetLexer(GadgetID,#SCLEX_LUA)
    SCI_SetStyleBits(GadgetID,5)
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#STYLE_DEFAULT, RGB(0,0,0)) 
    SCI_StyleSetBack(GadgetID,#STYLE_DEFAULT, RGB(255,255,255))
    SCI_StyleClearAll(GadgetID)
    
    
    ;- Set caret line colour 
    SCI_SetCaretLineBack(GadgetID,12632256) 
    SCI_SetCaretLineVisible(GadgetID,#True) 
    
    ;- Comment block
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_DEFAULT, 0) ; Default Color 
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_COMMENT, 32768) ; Coment Color 
    SCI_StyleSetFont(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_COMMENT, @"Courier New") ; Coment Font 
    SCI_StyleSetSize(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_COMMENT, 9) ; Coment Size
     
    ;- Single line comment
    SCI_StyleSetSize(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_COMMENTLINE, 9) ; Coment Size 
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_COMMENTLINE, 32768) ; Coment Color 
    SCI_StyleSetFont(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_COMMENTLINE, @"Courier New") ; Coment Font 
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_NUMBER, 8421504)
    SCI_StyleSetBold(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_NUMBER, #True) ; set number Bold  
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_STRING, 8388736) 
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_OPERATOR, 255)
    SCI_StyleSetBold(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_OPERATOR, #True) ; set operator Bold 
    ;SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_PREPROCESSOR, 255) 
    
    ;- Color Of Selection 
    SCI_SetSelBack(GadgetID,#True, RGB(49, 106, 197)) 
    SCI_SetSelFore(GadgetID,#True, RGB(255, 255, 255)) 
    
    ; Code Wraper 
    ;SCI_SETWRAPMODE(GadgetID,#SC_WRAP_WORD) 
    ;SCI_SETWRAPVISUALFLAGS(GadgetID,#SC_WRAPVISUALFLAG_START | #SC_WRAPVISUALFLAG_END) 
    
    ; Keyword 
;     SCI_SetKeywords(GadgetID,0, @KeyWord1) ; Set KeyWord 1 
;     SCI_SetKeywords(GadgetID,1, @KeyWord2) ; Set KeyWord 2 
;     SCI_SetKeywords(GadgetID,2, @KeyWord3) ; Set KeyWord 3 
;     SCI_SetKeywords(GadgetID,3, @KeyWord4) ; Set KeyWord 4 
;     SCI_SetKeywords(GadgetID,4, @KeyWord5) ; Set KeyWord 5 
;     SCI_SetKeywords(GadgetID,5, @KeyWord6) ; Set KeyWord 6 
;     SCI_SetKeywords(GadgetID,6, @KeyWord7) ; Set KeyWord 7 
;     SCI_SetKeywords(GadgetID,7, @KeyWord8) ; Set KeyWord 8 
    
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_WORD, 16711680) 
    SCI_StyleSetBold(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_WORD, #True)
     
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_WORD2, 16744576)
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_WORD3, 16744448)
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_WORD4, 8388608)
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_WORD5, 16711808) 
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_WORD6, 8421440)
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_WORD7, 32896)
    SCI_StyleSetFore(GadgetID,#SCE_LUA_WORD8, 255)
    
    
    ; Working Fold 
    SCI_SetProperty(GadgetID,@"fold", @"1") 
    SCI_SetProperty(GadgetID,@"fold.compact", @"0") 
    ;SCI_SetProperty(GadgetID,@"fold.comment", @"1") ; If enable this Line Your Comment get Fold 
    SCI_SetProperty(GadgetID,@"fold.preprocessor", @"1") 
    
EndMacro

[Imagine Programming]

Oh it was my own error! I used the SCI_STYLECLEARALL message too early, and I was trying to set the overall background using the LCE_LUA_DEFAULT style. Stupid me

It's working now by only setting one background :yes I'm using the default scintilla functions, ScintillaSendMessage, I've seen some includes wrapping them up but I like the actual 'function' being highlighted in constant color so I can find them quicker

It's all working now Now it's just statically linking lua, creating a state and get *some word these forums mask out... crac...ing *


Thanks Dean

[RizlaUK]

Ha, easy mistake to make

heres my scintilla wrapper, its a dam sight easier to use than ScintillaSendMessage, compile it with talibite and use the static scintilla lib and you have everything built into the editor, no external files at all

[RizlaUK]

Bas, linking to lua, you rewriting Scite, lol or writing you own version of PX :(

[Imagine Programming]

Thanks, much appreciated :yes

Dean, your inbox seems to be filled up with messages

[RizlaUK]

tis full already...again!

thnaks for the heads up :yes

[Imagine Programming]

Bas, linking to lua, you rewriting Scite, lol or writing you own version of PX :(

Neither of them It's, well, a sort of informative application.
I'll send a message