about this forum..

drarem · Post by **drarem** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 9:05 pm

I didn't see any topic so I'm posting it here. The only thing that drives me crazy is the poor contrast between the forecolor and backcolor of any posted code. Sometimes I have to highlight the codebox to read it. Can I change my colors in this forum?

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:33 am

No, I don't think so. But you should probably check your monitor. We have a clear 'very light blue' against 'dark blue' contrast. The text is even black on the 'very light blue'

Lonesome Ducky · Post by **Lonesome Ducky** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:47 am

I think he's talking about the codebox. The green on whatever color the background is

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like this

Can't say I've ever had problems with it

drarem · Post by **drarem** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:10 am

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TESTING

Thanks for responding. On two different LCDs within the code tags, the font looks to be a light green and background white.

pippy3 · Post by **pippy3** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:24 am

I'd say a combination of having your monitor in bight conditions and perhaps color blindness would be causing it.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:52 am

Ok, I thought code box was only one problem. Is it better now?

drarem · Post by **drarem** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:26 pm

Sometimes I wonder if I have slight color-'tone' deafness. Single lines are fine, when I'm reading through a dump it's a little difficult to discern the lines.. like this can confuse me. Tell me you don't paste this into an editor to be able to read the lines carefully when debugging.

Maybe my monitor resolution is too big/font too small which may be driving me crazy too if I weren't already there

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g++ -I../../include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/opt/irrlicht/include -O3 -ffast-math -Os -fomit-frame-pointer main.cpp -o main -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L../../irrlicht/lib/Linux -L/opt/irrlicht/lib/Linux -lIrrlicht -lGL -lGLU -lXxf86vm -lXext -lX11
main.cpp: In member function ‘int GDR::changeresolution(irr::IrrlichtDevice*, int, int)’:
main.cpp:55: error: invalid initialization of reference of type ‘const irr::core::dimension2d<unsigned int>&’ from expression of type ‘irr::core::dimension2d<int>’
/opt/irrlicht/include/irrlicht.h:322: error: in passing argument 2 of ‘irr::IrrlichtDevice* irr::createDevice(irr::video::E_DRIVER_TYPE, const irr::core::dimension2d<unsigned int>&, irr::u32, bool, bool, bool, irr::IEventReceiver*)’
main.cpp: In member function ‘int GDR::restore(irr::IrrlichtDevice*)’:
main.cpp:59: error: invalid initialization of reference of type ‘const irr::core::dimension2d<unsigned int>&’ from expression of type ‘irr::core::dimension2d<int>’
/opt/irrlicht/include/irrlicht.h:322: error: in passing argument 2 of ‘irr::IrrlichtDevice* irr::createDevice(irr::video::E_DRIVER_TYPE, const irr::core::dimension2d<unsigned int>&, irr::u32, bool, bool, bool, irr::IEventReceiver*)’
main.cpp: In member function ‘virtual bool MyEventReceiver::OnEvent(const irr::SEvent&)’:
main.cpp:103: error: invalid initialization of reference of type ‘const irr::core::dimension2d<unsigned int>&’ from expression of type ‘irr::core::dimension2d<int>’
/opt/irrlicht/include/irrlicht.h:322: error: in passing argument 2 of ‘irr::IrrlichtDevice* irr::createDevice(irr::video::E_DRIVER_TYPE, const irr::core::dimension2d<unsigned int>&, irr::u32, bool, bool, bool, irr::IEventReceiver*)’
main.cpp: In member function ‘int LX::LXScreen(int, int)’:
main.cpp:143: error: invalid initialization of reference of type ‘const irr::core::dimension2d<unsigned int>&’ from expression of type ‘irr::core::dimension2d<int>’
/opt/irrlicht/include/irrlicht.h:322: error: in passing argument 2 of ‘irr::IrrlichtDevice* irr::createDevice(irr::video::E_DRIVER_TYPE, const irr::core::dimension2d<unsigned int>&, irr::u32, bool, bool, bool, irr::IEventReceiver*)’
make: *** [all_linux] Error 1

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Adler1337 · Post by **Adler1337** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:51 pm

Sometimes I wonder if I have slight color-'tone' deafness.

I'm willing to bet you do. It's not that uncommon. I believe windows has a high contrast mode that might help you a bit. If someone were to change the color of the codebox I'm sure that would make things easier to read for everyone. (perhaps blue instead of green?)

serengeor · Post by **serengeor** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:58 pm

I saw that some forums have syntax highlighted code boxes, that would be nice to have

pippy3 · Post by **pippy3** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 12:31 am

serengeor wrote:I saw that some forums have syntax highlighted code boxes, that would be nice to have

This. They're very easy to set up an the auto-copy function is great.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 1:49 pm

IIRC, this is not possible for our current forum setup, but bitplane is working on an upgrade which will probably also include highlighting.

randomMesh · Post by **randomMesh** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:58 pm

Most browsers allow to override the CSS stylesheets. Just use a custom one when browsing the Irrlicht forums.

The CSS for the code box would look like this:

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td.code { color: blue !important; }

or similar.

Opera provides special accessibility stylesheets.

http://www.opera.com/docs/usercss/