Re: Help needed to fix QTerminal problem

[John W. Eaton]

On 04/08/2013 02:53 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:48 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     On 04/01/2013 01:06 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
>         I checked in the following change to force the terminal window
>         in the
>         GUI for Windows system to be black text on a white background.
>         It works,
>         but it's also not user-customizable. I'm not sure how best to handle
>         these settings. Comments or suggestions welcome.
>
>         http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/__hgweb/octave/rev/eeedbc7c0740
>         <http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/eeedbc7c0740>
>
>
>     It also doesn't quite work properly.  It does give black on white for
>     the terminal window, but when less displays its prompt for more input,
>     all I see now is a black bar.
>
>     So does anyone know the proper way to fix this problem so the terminal
>     colors will match the rest of Octave on Windows systems?
>
>     Even better than that, can anyone help to allow these colors to be
>     customized by the user?
>
>
> Did you try to invert the colors
> in libgui/qterminal/libqterminal/win32/QTerminalColors.cpp instead?

No, I'll try that.  But even before my changes, the background color 
appeared to be set unconditionally to Qt::Black:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/eeedbc7c0740

Is there a way to ask for the background color from the hidden terminal? 
 Or should I just set it to white unconditionally?

jwe