R devel - May 2024 - [R] Is there some way to customize colours for the View output?

I just tried it on an old Windows computer.  I don't see dataeditfg in 
the preferences menu; I think it is the internal variable name used for 
"dataedittext".

The row and column names don't appear to be controllable from that menu, 
they seem (on my machine) to be displayed in the same colour as the 
background of a dialog box, i.e. some kind of gray.  I don't think R 
tries to control that colour, but perhaps some Windows setting would 
change it.

Duncan Murdoch

On 2024-05-13 4:50 a.m., Iago Gin? V?zquez wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just could test your suggestions on using dataedit... entries now,
> and indeed they work... partially. See, please, the next screenshot:
> https://ibb.co/Dkn2pVs <https://ibb.co/Dkn2pVs>
> 
> 
> dataedituser modifies the red borders
> dataedittext the yellow text
> dataeditfg... I do not know, specified to green the output of 
> View(mtcars) does not change from that of the screenshot
> dataeditbg is the (almost) black background...., but in the column and 
> row names.
> 
> I tried the modifying the different colours through the GUI preferences, 
> and the background colour for column and row names did not change. May 
> this be a bug?
> 
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Iago
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> *De:* Rolf Turner <rolfturner at posteo.net>
> *Enviat el:* dimarts, 7 de maig de 2024 23:58
> *Per a:* Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> *A/c:* Iago Gin? V?zquez <iago.gine at sjd.es>; r-help at
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> <r-help at r-project.org>; Achim Zeileis <Achim.Zeileis at
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> *Tema:* Re: [R] Is there some way to customize colours for the View output?
> 
> On Tue, 7 May 2024 06:34:50 -0400
> Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/05/2024 6:31 a.m., Iago Gin? V?zquez wrote:
>> > Thanks Duncan.
>> > 
>> > I am currently on Windows. Is there any solution for it?
>> 
>> Switch to Linux or MacOS?
> 
> 
> Fortune nomination!
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf Turner
> 
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? Mon, 13 May 2024 06:08:22 -0400
Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> ?????:
> The row and column names don't appear to be controllable from that
> menu, they seem (on my machine) to be displayed in the same colour as
> the background of a dialog box, i.e. some kind of gray.  I don't
> think R tries to control that colour, but perhaps some Windows
> setting would change it.
This is entirely correct: the dialog uses the colour returned by
dialog_bg(), which is GetSysColor(COLOR_BTNFACE).

I think it could be a reasonable feature request to use an adjustable
colour for the row and column headers.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan