R devel - May 2024 - FR: Customize background colour of row and column headers for the View output

Thanks again Duncan and Ivan,

I forward then the email to R-devel.

Summarizing, the dataedit options (in RGui preferences or RConsole) to
colouring the View output do not have effect on the background of the row
and column names (see https://ibb.co/Dkn2pVs).

Could this be implemented?

Thank you!

Best regards,
Iago
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De: Ivan Krylov <ikrylov at disroot.org>
Enviat el: dilluns, 13 de maig de 2024 14:34
Per a: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
A/c: Iago Gin?? V??zquez <iago.gine at sjd.es>; r-help at r-project.org
<r-help at r-project.org>
Tema: Re: [R] Is there some way to customize colours for the View output?

?? 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

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This seems like something that should be fairly easily doable.  Why 
don't you work out a patch?

Some decisions to make:

- What colours are we talking about?  Would you want the labels to have 
their colour set independent of the dialog colours?  If so, would you 
also want to configure the dialog colours?

- What names should be used for the colours?

- Where should all of these definitions be documented?

If you don't feel comfortable with the coding, perhaps you could answer 
these questions, and someone else may code it for you.  I won't (I no 
longer have easy access to Windows), but I could help with the design.

Duncan Murdoch

On 2024-05-14 5:25 a.m., Iago Gin? V?zquez wrote:
> Thanks again Duncan and Ivan,
> 
> I forward then the email to R-devel.
> 
> Summarizing, the dataedit options (in RGui preferences or RConsole) to
> colouring the View output do not have effect on the background of the row
> and column names (see https://ibb.co/Dkn2pVs
<https://ibb.co/Dkn2pVs>).
> 
> Could this be implemented?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Best regards,
> Iago
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *De:* Ivan Krylov <ikrylov at disroot.org>
> *Enviat el:* dilluns, 13 de maig de 2024 14:34
> *Per a:* Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> *A/c:* Iago Gin? V?zquez <iago.gine at sjd.es>; r-help at
r-project.org
> <r-help at r-project.org>
> *Tema:* Re: [R] Is there some way to customize colours for the View output?
> ? 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