Lister Background Color

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Hey all.

Is it possible to change a background color of a specific lister?
Mainly for fun and for being able to easily recognize/click it when I hover on the thumbnails in the taskbar, it's easier to find a color than to read text.

Curious! maybe for the future if not atm.

Thank you

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Yes, via Preferences / Folders / Folder Images.

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Amazing! just what I meant - thank you so much

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Ok update: almost what I meant,

Since repeating folders along listers will still show that color. If the lister has xx folders open and I'm not highlighting this folder, it won't show.

I would love to just color a specific lister.

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I see... it's either a general or a per-folder setting. I don't think there is a per-lister setting. You could use a toolbar with a special color as a visual indicator. Toolbars can be toggled per-lister.

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Moreover, is it maybe possible to set a button that will assign this per folder? with an option to choose a color? that would be nice.

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that's cool too! (the per lister colored bar) I think it's recognizable enough from the taskbar, how did you do that?

Thanks a lot !

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That's the fill color here, via Prefs CUSTOMIZE=toolbars:

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You can toggle the toolbar with a button/hotkey like this:

Toolbar NAME=RED TOGGLE
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Apologies I am not able to do it,
Is that first a setting in preferences I must turn on?

I tried a button with a "Toolbar NAME=RED TOGGLE" command but I'm wrong I think.

Or, I must create a new toolbar, per lister, and color it?

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You also need the toolbar (one is enough). Go into Customize mode:

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Once the toolbar is ready it can be toggled per lister with the command.

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Thank you!

So if I get it right, if I have 5 listers, I need to create 5 different toolbars with different colors?
or I can color the same toolbar differently, per lister?

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You will need one toolbar per color. Each toolbar can be individually turned on and off per lister.

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Got it, thank you very much.

Maybe the background color looks a bit nicer, will play around with it.

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You can change the background color via commands:

Go BACKGROUNDCOLOR=#rrggbb
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Hey! That's even per file display! :+1:

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Am I doing it correctly? it doesn't work on my end.

And is it possible to set the color upon clicking? either the hex or maybe type the name of the color? so it's a dynamic button.

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Looks right.

Make sure you don't have a background image in use, as that would draw on top of the color.

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Working here (even if it seems undocumented).
If you really want to choose from a set of colors, I can see 2 ways :

  1. Create multiple buttons, each with its color, and put them in a menu
  2. Make a small script (JS or VB) with a small window and a palette color control and a OK button. You'll be able to choose your color and call aRunCommand on a command object to set the color to the chosen color.

But you first have to make the GO BACKGROUNDCOLOR=#rrggbb work first.

Note : It seems GO BACKGROUNDCOLOR=none reverts to default bg color.

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Go BACKGROUNDCOLOR=edit opens a color picker for interactive changes.

reset resets to normal. (Maybe none also works? Not sure about that, as it's not in the command template.)

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Right (none not in the template) ... probably reverts to default (=reset) since it can't interpret.
I tried none because of its use in the palette dialog control :slight_smile:

EDIT : Just tried the edit value : nice, you get to preview in realtime how it renders in the pane you want to apply ! @ghostmize : you can scratch my second option to go for a script, you'll never get that flexibility easily in a custom made function.

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