Change Default Text Color

first this looks like a cool control, thanks for the hard work.

I’m trying to implement a personal editor based on pandoc markdown. I want to implement syntax hi-lighting for it and stumbled across your project. I ran the java keyword demo included with the source. It looked nice, however when I spend long stretches at the computer I prefer an editor with a black background, think darcula in Intellij or Norway Today in Netbeans. So I proceeded to change the background colour to black, which was easy enough to achieve, I just added the following to the css file:

.styled-text-area{
    -fx-background-color:black;

}

With a little googling I found that I had to set the fill for the text as follows:

.styled-text-area .text{

    -fx-fill:yellow;
}

However when I set the fill as above there is no longer any syntax hi-lighting everything is yellow. So I was wondering if this is a bug or if there is some other way to change the default text colour.

Anyway to replicate just add the above to the java-keywords.css file.

[TomasMikula]

It is actually not public API, but it so happens that the caret is a Path with zero area and stroke of width 1px and has the class caret, so you can customize its color like this:

.styled-text-area .caret {
    -fx-stroke: yellow;
}

[silenuz]

Is it possible to change the caret color? When changing fill on a TextArea the caret changes to the same color as the fill, however when setting the fill in the StyledTextArea the caret does not change and remains black. Is there a way to change the caret color?

-Jordan

On 08/31/2015 02:18 PM, Tomas Mikula wrote:

You need |.styled-text-area .text.keyword| etc., i.e. no space between |.text| and |.keyword|.

|.text .keyword| means a node with class |keyword| that is a descendant of a node with class |text|, while |.text.keyword| means a node with classes |text| and |keyword|. Peculiarities of CSS.

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