Gui.cs: Change Background Color

[stevozilik]

Any way to change background color from blue to something else?
I've tried setting ColorScheme on everything I can see and no luck...

Regards,
Stefan

[migueldeicaza]

How did you set the color scheme?

[tayabsoomro]

Has anyone figured this out yet?

[shiftybit]

From what @migueldeicaza has asked, I would gather that it's possible to set the Color Scheme, but I can't find out in the documentation how to do it.

Can we get some guidance on that?

[PioArchiver]

I found the following in CursesDriver.cs

I could use any information regarding how to implement it properly.
Also found this and a bunch of other color theme methods in the above named file.

public override void SetColors (ConsoleColor foreground, ConsoleColor background)

Maybe their is an issue with #84 for cross platform compat.

I saw these too #61, #29, and #48 too

[PioArchiver]

Hi @migueldeicaza was wondering if I should put up an issue for guidance about the last commit you did to expose the MakeColor part of the curses API?

[Benjamintf1]

That's rather confusing. I'd assume that SetColors() or SetAttribute to set the background colors, but I was only able to set the colors by manually setting Terminal.gui.Colors.Base and editing the application.Driver didn't seem to do anything.

Specificially the line to change the blue is

using Terminal.Gui;
...
            Application.Init();
            Colors.Base = Colors.Dialog;

I'mt testing this on windows.

[migueldeicaza]

There are a number of ways of changing the color.

The first thing is to configure the ColorScheme, which defines all the global colors after you have called Application.Init:

Application.Init ();
Colors.Base.Normal = Application.Driver.MakeAttribute (Color.Green, Color.Black);

The other one is to set the ColorScheme on a specific view, here I just change it to the error one, but you can create your own:

var win = new Window (...)
win.ColorScheme = Colors.Error;

[Benjamintf1]

Solid, TY!