Locations of a few custom colour settings and theme tweaks

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I’m trying to customise one of standard themes (Grey Matter Dark). Would like to make a couple of tweaks on difficult to see elements, so I need an advice.

I know that a theme file is an archive that holds four files. :slight_smile: Also I know my way around CSS. Could please someone knowledgeable tell me, what and where should I change for the following:

  • colour of underlining of a misspelled word in editor,
  • colour of selected text on a Corkboard card (background and text colour, preferably)
  • colour of selected item on the Binder (background and text, also).

Thanks in advance for any advice. I think I have seen somewhere something resembling a small how-to, but can’t seem to find it. :frowning:

P.S.: As I understand, > signs in the Binder are not customisable? They are all but invisible in dark themes. Has anything changed?

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The first is in the settings for Appearance > Textual Marks > Spell Check Underline (the bottom option)

The other two are set in the CSS, and I don’t know them by heart, so a can look them up tonight.

They’re probably also mentioned in my book on the topic.

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Thank you for the response. Actually, I have forgotten that some colour options are in the Options. :slight_smile: Will dig around more. I suppose Inspector comments tab background is also somewhere in there (or is it in CSS?)

I have already found the background colour of Binder items on my own. :slight_smile: Have not been able to identify Corkboard options, though. Would be great if you could advise, thanks!

ETA: Inspector pane backgrounds are, indeed, in the Options. However, individual comments’ background/text is not there. I have not been able to find them anywhere else on the Options so far.

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You can change them individually in the context menu, some tricky colouring is going on with the items in the Comments and Footnotes pane in the Inspector.

The Background-color of Index Card is also in the Options : Appearance > Index Cards > Colors.
The selected text color is the same as for other PlainText controls:

QPlainTextEdit {
   color: cyan;
   background-color: blue;
   selection-color: yellow;
   selection-background-color: red;
}

So, changing this will change all QPlainTextEdit controls. You can make it more specific using the SCRCorkboard as its parent:

SCRCorkboard  QPlainTextEdit { ... }

The color of the text in the Comments TextEdit control:

SCRInspectorComments QAbstractScrollArea QTextEdit {
   color: lime;
   background-color: red;
}

Hope this helps

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