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With Windows Look and Feel, NetBeans 3.4RC1 (JavaHelp 1.1.2), and JDK 1.4.0_01, the highlight background color is dark blue which is unreadable with black text. The help topic "Setting Font and Color for the Help Viewer" says to edit install-directory/docs/org/netbeans/modules/users guide/ide.css, but there's nothing there that will help because this is a Swing issue: UIManager.put("EditorPane.selectionBackground", new Color(150,150,200)); is a workaround. See thread at <http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=3 61437&listName=nbusers>
Gail, I'll put a note in the README for 3.4, but the fact the user can not actually use the css to change the background highlighting should probably be addressed explicitly for 4.0. AFAIK, the unreadability is only an issue on JDK 1.4 with the Windows look and feel.
I put a note in the help topic that you cannot set the highlight color using the style sheet. Patrick, since the highlight color for the help viewer cannot currently be easily changed, should we reassign this bug and ask for a fix in the code? This should be fixed for accessibility.
There already is a JDK bug number assigned 4761990. It looks like it won't be fixed for JDK 1.4.2, but it will be done after that.
I'm going to marked this bug as fixed as a note has been added to the help topic and the bug number 4761990 is assigned to fixing the highlighting problem in the source code.
for some reason, the bug isn't publicly visible through Bug Parade. Here are some relevant excerpts from bug 4761990 A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM : In javahelp the search highlight was previously a light grey color. Now the search highlight appears as a dark blue - in checking this on Windows this highlight co- incides with the color defined in the windows area of 'Appearance/Scheme/selected item property.' This is fine in windows where the underlying font changes property to display as white when a dark color is displayed, but in this case the underlying font does *not* change color when a dark color is used in this selection. Whatever swing previously used in this area, please return to it. Much thanks. EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR : Previously the highlight was a light gray (using the default windows color scheme) now the highlight is a dark blue (using the same color scheme.) After looking at the color scheme the color of the highlight can be changed by changing the color of the 'selected item property'. CUSTOMER WORKAROUND : Change the selected item property on the windows system. However, doing this also changes default windows uses. Accepted: yes Evaluated: yes Evaluation Top Refer to the comments section, based on the feedback this sounds like an RFE for the ability for highlights to effect text color, or to have highlights automatically change the text color to be selectedTextColor. 2002-10-29
Not sure if its important, but this also affects every JGoodies L&F. Perhaps unimportant, but since JGoodies was released under a BSD license this week, I suspect it's going to become more commonly used.
I added a comment about the JGoodies issue to the Bug Parade issue.
removing RELNOTE keyword; BTW, the background color issue has now been fixed in NB independent of the supposed JDK fix