Re: RDi background color

Hey, I represent that!

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: -----
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11/18/2016 03:59PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi background color


Dick, haha, I think we're ALL old guys by now. I don't know a single RPG
programmer under 50, and damn few under 60.

Stu




On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:39 PM, <dick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Justin,
I don't like the white background either. After much frustration, I
finally figured out how to change this. I'm happy to share what worked for
me.
(I'm running RDi Version: 9.5.1.0)

1. Start with Windows | Preferences. (it helped me to move the
preferences dialog so that I could still see my source code in the editor)
2. Expand the section "LPEX Editor"
3. Click on "Appearance" (mine has the "eclipse" pallet selected.
4. In the "Styles" list box, click on the "default" Style
5. Click on "Background"
6. Then you pick a color.
7. Click the "Apply" button and see how your source looks. If you don't
like it, press the
8. For me, I heard that black text on yellow background is the most easy
to read. So I went into "Define Custom Colors", and I set the color to:
Red: 255
Green: 255
Blue: 204

Depending on the color that you pick, you may need to change colors for
other settings. But with the color I picked, I didn't have to change too
much.

By the way, if you are an old guy like me, this LPEX Editor/Appearances
panel is a good place to increase the font size and use something better
looking than ugly old Courier-New. Just be sure that you pic a mono-spaced
font (Consolas or Lucida Console are decent choices).


Hope that helps!

Dick Donohue

On Nov 18, 2016, at 9:54 AM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm looking for a way to tone down the bright white background for
source. I tried the different themes, but they didn't change the source
itself.

Any suggestions?

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