Background colours in TextEditor

[pusherman]

Hi all,

I'm using a TextEditor control but I'm having difficulty in working out how to set the background colour.

I've looked through the online documentation where it talks about styles and themes but, unless I'm missing something, I can't find anything to answer my question.

I'm looking for the equivalent of : TextArea1.Background = <colour>
but for TextEditor

Thanks
Pusherman

[BruceSteers]

The TextEditor uses a TextHighlighterTheme that overrides basic Control properties like Background/Foreground.

https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.for ... itor/theme

https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.hig ... ghtertheme

Change the Background like this....

  TextEditor1.Theme["Background"].Color = Color.Cyan

There are many things you can set and you can get a list of available styles like this..

For Each s As TextHighlighterStyle In TextEditor1.Theme.Styles
  Print s.Key; "; ";
Next

Normal; Background; Selection; Current; Breakpoint; Highlight; Added; Removed; Error; Comment; Documentation; Keyword; Function; Operator; Symbol; Number; String; Datatype; Preprocessor; Escape; Constant; Shebang; Expansion; Command; AtRule; Class; PseudoClass; Id; Tag; TagAttribute; Color; Unit; Important; Diff; Index; File; Position; Doctype; Entity; Markup; Attribute; Value; RegExp; Label;

[pusherman]

Thank you!

[BruceSteers]

Thank you!

You're welcome.

You'll see you can set Color , Bold, and many other properties for certain types of text that will show when a TextEditor.Highlight mode like "gambas" or "sh" is used.

And that's pretty cool.
I have it my ScripEd text editor I can fully customize every style in the theme of every highlight mode.

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