Customize colors in FTP log panel?

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Hi there,

Is there any way to customize the colors of the FTP log panel? Text and/or background ...

I have a dark theme and the text is hardcoded on black, so it's almost invisible. Screenshot attached.

DOpus 11 up to date here.

Thank you.

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It was hardcoded to use black for the normal text color, but we've made a change for the next update which will make it use the system text color, which should fix things for you.

(Old messages already in the log will not be affected, since the colors are saved into the log itself, but new messages will use the new colors.)

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That sounds good :slight_smile:

Thanks for the quick response,
Mircea.

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Next update won't help Opus 11, will it?

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Correct; Opus 11 updates stopped mid 2016. You'd need to be on / upgraded to Opus 12.

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Not to steal a thread. It would be nice to have the logs support more detailed color formatting like this.

Switching to Scintilla to render the log, and allowed us to provide a notepad++ config file containing the formatting would give us some nice flexability.

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You can use any colors you wish to in logs output via scripts. Is that what you're after?

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I didn't know that. So the script can control the output formatting?

I was thinking specifically for the FTP log. Instead of having the code that is logging control the formatting, use an approach similar to notepad++. Where we could use a config file to format the output.
This would allow Dopus to support out of the box simple back and foreground coloring. But let people use more complex custom formatting to format specific lines and words. Similar to what we can do here in the viewer Plugins: Source code viewer based on Scintilla.

Then we could produce logs that look similar to this
https://help.papertrailapp.com/kb/how-it-works/log-colorization/#viewer-customizations

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You can use any colors you wish to in logs output via scripts. Is that what you're after?

Is there any specific documentation available on how to do this? I won't be upgrading DOpus for this alone :slight_smile:

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Scripts can control the colors of the messages they write to the script log.

Scripts aren't involved with the FTP log.

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Oh well then, I'm pretty much left for dead with this one on DOpus 11. I guess I'll have to stick with the copy-paste procedure to read the log.

Thanks for your time.