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mathdon · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2023 8:51 am Post subject:

@davecs

You are not being a pain in the arse. It is interesting to me to find these quirks of various implementations. Linux seems far less standardized than Windows.

I have tried Nimbus now and get the same behaviour as you do. There is nothing I can do about the disappearing items when selected. RMIR does not set the foreground colour of selected items, so if it is set to White then it is the look-and-feel that is doing that. The same with the highlight colour in the progress bars. The orange is being set by the look-and-feel, just as in GTK+ your cyan and my deep purple highlight colour is set by the look-and-feel. The intended interpretation of progressbar.foregroundColor is that it sets the colour of the highlighting. Some look-and-feels, which appear to include both Nimbus and GTK+, make their own choice of highlight colour and use that value for the text. This is what you call "reversal" and I thought the notes within the setting dialog explained it. Despite the different interpretations by different look-and-feels, I understand that you have now found a combination of settings that works OK in all the look-and-feels, so I hope all is now well.
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mathdon · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2023 4:11 am Post subject:

@davecs

I have traced the disappearing text in Nimbus to this look-and-feel supporting the setting of the foreground colour in table cells but not the background colour. You will see that in other look-and-feels, when a cell is selected the background becomes coloured and the foreground (text) colour becomes white. The background colour when selected is sometimes settable by Java and sometimes unchangeable and determined by the look-and-feel. In GTK+ for example, it is unchangeable and orange so the white text is a good contrast. In Nimbus the background colour when selected is white, no change from the unselected background, so the white foreground makes the text disappear.

I will fix this somehow and post v3.0.5.. I hope to do it without requiring another settable option, but if that is needed then so be it. I suspect, however, that in those look-and-feels that do not allow the background colour of table cells to be changed, the new traffic-light system of clash warnings will not work. I have not yet had time to test this, but will do so before I post v3.0.5.

@WagonMaster

Many thanks for pointing out the typos. I will fix them i v3.0.5.
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mathdon · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2023 1:13 pm Post subject:

I am on the track of sorting this, but not there yet. I have found a bug in RMIR which affects Nimbus but not GTK+, and it is that which is responsible for the background colour of selected items in certain tables with Nimbus being white. I hope to fix it so that Nimbus really does behave like the other look-and-feels.
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davecs · Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 328 Location: UK

mathdon · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2023 1:12 pm Post subject:

I have now replaced RMIR v3.0.4 in the RMIR Development folder with v3.0.5. This should fix the issues with the Nimbus look-and-feel. It should also improve the progress bar settings as I have added a new radio button, "Default", to each of the three settings in the option dialog. If you have used v3.0.4 then it is advisable to change your settings in this option to "Default" for each of the three settings, to see how you like the defaults. You may then change the settings again if you so wish. I have found the defaults to work well in all look-and-feels.
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The Robman · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2023 2:17 pm Post subject:

Just FYI, Norton flagged jp12serial.dll as unsafe when I extracted the zip, so I had to go into Norton itself to restore it.
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davecs · Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 328 Location: UK

mathdon · Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2023 6:58 am Post subject:

@davecs:

Many thanks for the report on Nimbus. How about the changes to the progress bar settings. Have you tried changing all settings to Default, and have you tried other look-and-feels?
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mathdon · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2023 1:34 pm Post subject:

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mathdon · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2023 12:49 pm Post subject:

I have now replaced RMIR v3.0.5 in the RMIR Development folder with v3.0.6. The Set Progress Bars dialog is now properly centred in the RMIR frame. Table colours have been revised to increase readability, as far as possible, in all look-and-feels. There are still some situations in which there is poor contrast between background and foreground colours, but Java does not give complete flexibility in colour settings so this is not always possible.

This build also prevents the RMIR frame from re-sizing on a change of look-and-feel. Some changes caused re-sizing to full-screen height and/or width that made manual re-sizing difficult or even impossible.
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