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Author Topic: How to change background color for the results area  (Read 6522 times)

tunayx

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How to change background color for the results area
« on: July 29, 2009, 08:30 AM »
First of all thanks for this great utility. Find and Run Robot really read my mind.  :-*
I want to change background color for the results area to black. I tried vcl skinner but couldn't find proper section. How can I do this?

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Re: How to change background color for the results area
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2009, 08:33 AM »
glad you like it!
actually i think this may have come up before and we figured out i needed to add something to make this possible.. easy enough to do if so.
did you find a skin you like that works in all other respects?

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Re: How to change background color for the results area
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2009, 08:42 AM »
I modified VistaXP-VISTAXPS2 to my needs, only the background missed.

See attachment for zipped modified skin.

edit by jgpaiva: removed link to mediafire, downloaded file and attached to this post
« Last Edit: July 29, 2009, 08:46 AM by jgpaiva »

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Re: How to change background color for the results area
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2009, 09:08 AM »
ok ill add an option to let you customize the form background color; i should have it uploaded in the next couple of days.

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Re: How to change background color for the results area
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2009, 10:19 AM »
Thanks for the support, another reason to love FRR. :Thmbsup:

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Re: How to change background color for the results area
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2009, 03:58 PM »
I forgot to mention, besides the results area, also input area's background customization would add more complete look.

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Re: How to change background color for the results area
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2009, 10:43 AM »
implemented in latest verision (2.77.x); give it a try and let me know what you think.

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Re: How to change background color for the results area
« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2009, 02:42 AM »
Confimed working. Got me thinking: Would it be easy to let aliases turn on this temporarily via a special string? And then revert to default when the alias goes inactive. Could look cool!  8)

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Re: How to change background color for the results area
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2009, 05:52 AM »
why would that be useful?

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Re: How to change background color for the results area
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2009, 04:22 PM »
I said cool, not useful :D But I was thinking that visual cues for when an alias goes on/off might be a useful reminder/emphasizer. In most cases you of course see and know right away that an alias is activated because, for example, you typed "helpfarr" and that special list shows up. But when using very simple aliases, like  "^b (.+)$" or "^ (.+)$", to modify searches in subtle ways (and so not limit the results to just a few fixed matches), such reminders/emphasizers might be more useful. Hard to tell beforehand though. Maybe it can be compared to the bolding of matching parts in the results list that some launchers have. No essential launcher ingredient in any way, mostly just "visual topping".