[Therion] Line Colours in Map Editor with 5.4.1

[Benedikt Hallinger]

I am supporting this proposal from my experience.


Am 2017-08-11 15:09, schrieb Footleg via Therion:
> Having finally got around to updating my install to 5.4.1 I was trying to 
> work out how the line colours had appeared in the official builds (Im on 
> Windows). I see the ini file entries in both xtherion.ini and 
> xtherion.new.ini, all commented out in both files. So I am assuming the 
> colours are set by some hard coded defaults unless over ridden in the ini 
> file?
>
> Why are there two ini files? Are they both used by the application?
>
> When this feature was first provided (via the email list) for testing, I 
> commented that some of the default colours were not ideal from my 
> experience. In particular the use of brown for unselected walls in the 
> active scrap is not so easy to tell from the red selected item. As users are 
> already accustomed to the blue wall lines in the active scrap, I changed 
> this one to blue.
>
> Rock borders look the same colour as survey legs and splays in background 
> sketches brought in from PocketTopo, so I changed these to purple. So the 
> only two changes I have to add into my ini file are:
>
> set xth(gui,me,wallcolor) blue
>
> set xth(gui,me,rockcolor) purple
>
> The blue walls work well with the blue controlfill because the control 
> points only appear on selected lines, where the line is turned red. So this 
> is not confused with blue wall lines which are not selected.
>
> I would like to propose these colours be made the defaults as I think it 
> makes the editor easier to use, and I would like to reflect the default 
> colours in the screenshots in my tutorial documents when I update them to 
> reflect the latest release.
>
> Footleg