Slick EDIT V3.3 - Manual (Page 78)

ent screen elements in SlickEdit ® Core. This includes syntactic elements in the editor window, like
keywords, comments, strings, etc. as well as other user interface elements like the message area or the
status line. Window colors and backgrounds are set using the facilities provided by the operating system.
Color and Color Coding are different. Color Coding is a feature that combines current line coloring, modi-
fied line coloring, and language-specific coloring. SlickEdit Core recognizes and automatically displays
color support for many languages. See
Color Coding for more information.
Setting Colors for Screen Elements
Colors can be customized in the user interface. Colors can be set either individually or by editing a
scheme. To change the default colors, complete the following steps:
1. From the main menu, click Window
→
Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree,
then double-click the Color setting (or use the color command). The Color Settings dialog box is dis-
played.
Figure 4.6. Color Settings Dialog
2. Select the element you want to change from the Screen element list box (for descriptions of some of
these elements, see Color Settings Dialog ).
3. Set the Foreground and Background colors by clicking on the color squares. The Color Picker dialog
Setting Colors for Screen Ele-
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