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Color Classes

Before you use a color class in an expression like set_character_color(pos1, pos2, color_class c_keyword);, you must declare the color class (outside of any function definition) using the color_class keyword:

color_class c_keyword;

When you declare a new color class, you may wish to specify the colors to use for a particular color scheme using the color_scheme keyword:

color_class c_keyword
     color_scheme "standard-gui" = black on white;
color_class c_keyword
     color_scheme "standard-color" = green on black;

If you have many color definitions all for the same color class, you can use this syntax:

color_class c_keyword {
    color_scheme "standard-gui" = black on white;
    color_scheme "standard-color" = green on black;
};

Similarly, if you have many color definitions for the same color scheme, you can avoid repeating it by writing:

color_scheme "standard-gui" {
    color_class c_keyword = black on white;
    color_class c_function = blue on white;
    color_class c_identifier = black on white;
};

To specify the particular foreground and background colors for a color class (using the syntax foreground on background), you can use these macros defined in eel.h:

#define black           MAKE_RGB(0, 0, 0)
#define dark_red        MAKE_RGB(128, 0, 0)
#define dark_green      MAKE_RGB(0, 128, 0)
#define brown           MAKE_RGB(128, 128, 0)
// etc.

See that file for the current list of named colors. These functions use the MAKE_RGB() macro, providing particular values for red, green, and blue. You can use this macro yourself, in a color class definition, to specify precise colors:

color_scheme "my-color-scheme" {
    color_class c_keyword = MAKE_RGB(223, 47, 192) on yellow;
};

There are several other macros useful with color expressions:

#define MAKE_RGB(rd,grn,bl)  (((rd) << 16) + ((grn) << 8) + (bl))
#define GETRED(rgb)          (((rgb) >> 16) & 0xff)
#define GETGREEN(rgb)        (((rgb) >> 8) & 0xff)
#define GETBLUE(rgb)         ((rgb) & 0xff)

The GETRED(), GETGREEN(), and GETBLUE() macros take a color expression created with MAKE_RGB( ) and extract one of its three components, which are always numbers from 0 to 255.

The foreground color for a color class may also include font style bits, by or'ing any of the macros EFONT_BOLD, EFONT_UNDERLINED, and EFONT_ITALIC into the color code.

The ETRANSPARENT macro is a special code that may be used in place of a background color. It tells Epsilon to substitute the background color of the "text" color class in the current color scheme. The following three examples are all equivalent:

color_class text color_scheme "standard-gui" = yellow on red;
color_class c_keyword color_scheme "standard-gui" = blue on red;

color_class text color_scheme "standard-gui" = yellow on red;
color_class c_keyword color_scheme "standard-gui" = blue
    on ETRANSPARENT;

color_class text color_scheme "standard-gui" = yellow on red;
color_class c_keyword color_scheme "standard-gui" = blue;

The last example works because you may omit the on background part from the syntax foreground on background, and just specify a foreground color. Epsilon interprets this as if you typed on transparent, and substitutes the background color specified for "text".

You can also specify that a particular color class is the same as a previously-defined color class, like this:

color_scheme "standard-gui" {
    color_class text = black on white;
    color_class tex_text = color_class text;
};

When, for the current scheme, there's no specific color information for a color class, Epsilon looks for a default color class specification, one that's not associated with any scheme:

color_class diff_added = black on yellow;
color_class c_string = cyan;
color_class c_charconst = color_class c_string;

The first definition above says that, in the absence of any color-scheme-specific setting for the diff_added color class, it should be displayed as black text on a yellow background. The second says that text in the c_string color class should be displayed using cyan text, on the default background for the scheme (that defined for the text color class). And the third says that text in the c_charconst color class should be displayed the same as text in the c_string color class for that scheme.

Internally, Epsilon stores all color class settings that occur outside any color scheme in a special color scheme, which is named "color-defaults". See Colors for more on colors, including the other special-purpose flags that may appear in color class values.

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