With dark theme, text while typing and text output in Chat window is black

[rogue-ronin]

Describe the bug With dark theme, text while typing and text output in Chat window is black

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Apply RT Default Dark theme
2. Type something in Chat window (eg: /r 1d7)
3. Text being typed is black, text output is black

Expected behavior Text should be the same white as the theme uses elsewhere

Note: if I impersonate a token, the text spoken color is correctly applied, but the name of the token is also black instead of white. I expect it to be white, not black.

MapTool Information MapTool Version: 1.7.0 MapTool Home...: /home/rogue/.maptool-rptools Max mem avail..: 3 GB Max mem used...: 239 MB Custom Property: -DMAPTOOL_DATADIR=.maptool-rptools

Java Information Java Vendor.: Oracle Corporation Java Home...: /opt/MapTool/runtime Java Version: 10.0.2

OS Information OS Name........: Linux OS Version.....: 5.6.12-1-MANJARO OS Architecture: amd64 PATH...........: /home/rogue/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl Number of Procs: 4

Locale Information Country.: United States Language: Locale..: United States Variant.:

Encoding Information Default Locale: _US Default Charset: UTF-8 file.encoding: UTF-8 sun.jnu.encoding: UTF-8 Default Encoding: UTF8

Display Information Number of Displays: 2 Display 1: 1680x1050(-1) Display 2: 1680x1050(-1)

[Azhrei]

This is unrelated to your bug...

OS Information OS Name........: Linux OS Version.....: 5.6.12-1-MANJARO

Locale Information Country.: United States Language: Locale..: United States Variant.:

Encoding Information Default Locale: _US

This is interesting; I would not have expected the default locale to be _US. Would you mind opening a command prompt window and pasting the output of locale into a post here? I'm curious how the Java runtime came up with that... Thanks.

[rogue-ronin]

rogue@monarch [~]: locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

[aliasmask]

semi-related to this is also the background color of an MT roll with tooltip. It's always white. I haven't tested all the cases but something like [1d20] will always have a white background but use the selected chat text color.

[melek]

Also related to this.. It would be helpful to be able to define emote colors (defaults with a Black asterisk and Green text) for themes, and to be able to access that color in a macro so I can match the theme colors.

I simulate a lot of emotes :P

[crogonint]

Well.. I can't find the chat name color, or etc. in TinyCP after an exhaustive search, but I did figure out that it's using the JTextPane colors, and that you can simply lighten the box you type text in to with TextPane BG Color. The chat history box uses EditorPane BG Color. I just switched both to the 'Disabled Color' so that I can read the freaking chat text. Pretty sure the Token labels use the same text color as well, but I'm not willing to change my entire 'dark mode' to light gray. :P Actually, Reverend figured out the TextPane BG Color. Credit where credit is due. ;)

[Rukbat16]

The issue persists in version 1.10.4, on Windows.

MapTool Version: 1.10.4

OS: Windows 10 Home x64

Locale: EN-GB

Number of Displays: 1 Display 1: 1920x1080

[FullBleed]

@crogonint How did you edit just the TextPane BG Color?

We can get at 300+ theme color element in MT with getInfo() but we can't edit them inside MT... and we can't open .theme files with a text editor... so I'm not sure how to do just that element.

[crogonint]

Hmm.. I was fiddling around with settings. The ones that you're probably looking for weren't in any of the obvious places. I just dug around for scripts and references for things that might work, and set them manually.

I seem to recall that some of the stuff was persistent, but some stuff was not, and needed to be set every time.

I think MapTool has gone through a full version change since then, so everything MAY have changed up. Ideally, the devs ought to have a full list of the various color settings somewhere.

AH yes!! I mentioned that Reverend figured that one out! It's in the Discord somewhere. If you search my user name and "color" it should be relatively easy to find. :)

[FullBleed]

AH yes!! I mentioned that Reverend figured that one out! It's in the Discord somewhere. If you search my user name and "color" it should be relatively easy to find. :)

@crogonint Yeah, found that post... but still not understanding how you did this:

The chat history box uses EditorPane BG Color. I just switched both to the 'Disabled Color' so that I can read the freaking chat text.

What tool did you use? You can't do that within MT and I don't know how to edit the .theme file outside it (tinylaf doesn't let you edit all 300 theme elements last I checked.)

[crogonint]

Well that's a good question right there.

Really good.

Yep.

Possibly the java console? I was helping with the weather project back when I wrote that, so likely it was something related to MapTools particular flavor of java. Where are the JTextPane colors defined?

I can tell you that the setting IS persistent, because my current chat text retained the colors above when I checked it. Actually.. after digging around in my custom jar, the ONLY change I see is a copy of RT_Default_Dark.theme dated 11/29/2020 ...which is the same date I posted the above. Best guess. Between Reverend and myself, somebody made a custom theme file to solve the problem..?? RT_Default_Dark.zip

Nothing else jumped out at me. I DO have the MapTool Launcher installed, so I AM pretty sure that I was fiddling around in the Java console, like I mentioned earlier.

What DID jump out at me.. is that someone ought to do a text search of the contents of the jar file for "mlewis" and "frank".. then make the appropriate adjustments. (This is in 1.7.0) There are a few references to local files scattered around that are um.. unintentional.

[FullBleed]

Thanks for sharing your variant... I wish I could play around with the theme a bit more though... maybe experiment with changing the default text colors in various locations if possible so text in other windows would be readable without completely lightening the entire "Dark" theme.

Seems like there are a number of other laf libraries out there that would make this easier than what MT currently uses...

Possibly the java console? I was helping with the weather project back when I wrote that, so likely it was something related to MapTools particular flavor of java. Where are the JTextPane colors defined?

What do you mean by "Java Console"?

"TinyCP" is mentioned above... but I'm not sure what that is either. I found an app called that but it doesn't seem like it's the right one... can you link the "TinyCP" you're talking about above?

[crogonint]

You can get the Java Console by using the MapTool Launcher. (Which is a separate program.)

I honestly don't recall what TInyCP was.. It's a safe bet that it was one of the tools I was using while helping with the weather stuff. I would be shocked if the people on the Discord didn't know what it was, they were the ones telling me how to do this stuff. ;)

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On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 4:03 AM FullBleed @.***> wrote:

Thanks for sharing your variant... I wish I could play around with the theme a bit more though... maybe experiment with changing the default text colors in various locations if possible so text in other windows would be readable without completely lightening the entire "Dark" theme.

Seems like there are a number of other laf libraries out there that would make this easier than what MT currently uses...

Possibly the java console? I was helping with the weather project back when I wrote that, so likely it was something related to MapTools particular flavor of java. Where are the JTextPane colors defined?

What do you mean by "Java Console"?

"TinyCP" is mentioned above... but I'm not sure what that is either. I found an app called that but it doesn't seem like it's the right one... can you link the "TinyCP" you're talking about above?

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