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Add a setting to control selection background color #3326

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zadjii-msft opened this issue Oct 25, 2019 · 3 comments · Fixed by #3471
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Add a setting to control selection background color #3326

zadjii-msft opened this issue Oct 25, 2019 · 3 comments · Fixed by #3471
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Area-Rendering Text rendering, emoji, complex glyph & font-fallback issues Area-Settings Issues related to settings and customizability, for console or terminal Area-TerminalControl Issues pertaining to the terminal control (input, selection, keybindings, mouse interaction, etc.) Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. Resolution-Fix-Committed Fix is checked in, but it might be 3-4 weeks until a release.
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From @cayos in #3322:

It'd be amazing if you guys could implement the few remaining color customization options from VSCode's terminal to reach feature parity. They are:

  • terminal.selectionBackground: The selection background color of the terminal.
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From @javierdlg in #3061:

We're actually very interested in this since we have found a few contrast ratio issues with our colors and the terminal. We've also received some feedback since the terminal is the only tool that has different highlighting colors in VS:
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Any ideas on the cost for this feature request?

I honestly don't know what that would cost. Adding a simple color setting to the settings can be done in a day, but connecting that to the renderer might prove trickier. I don't really know enough about how the DX renderer works, so it's harder for me to cost what changing that might take. Maybe @miniksa could add his thoughts?

I think it is a lot trickier to provide an "invert selection" mode (like conhost), but setting a single arbitrary color for selection might be a lot simpler.

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rub8n commented Oct 30, 2019

Thanks for looking into this guys! For additional context, this is important for us because of the accessibility implications.

For example, if you see the image below, you can see how the colors don't really meet contrast ratios:
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Add Selection Background Color as a setting to Profiles and Col… (#3471)
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## Summary of the Pull Request
This introduces a setting to both Profiles and ColorSchemes called <code>selectionBackground</code> that allows you to change the selection background color to what's specified. If <code>selectionBackground</code> isn't set in either the profile or color scheme, it'll default to what it was before - white.

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## PR Checklist
* [x] Closes #3326
* [x] CLA signed. If not, go over [here](https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com/microsoft/Terminal) and sign the CLA
* [x] Tests added/passed
* [x] Requires documentation to be updated

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## Validation Steps Performed
- Added selectionBackground to existing profile and colorscheme tests.
- Verified that the color does change to what I expect it to be when I add "selectionBackground" to either/both a profile and a color scheme.


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* adding selectionBackground to ColorScheme and TerminalSettings

* Changing PaintSelection inside the renderers to take a SelectionBackground COLORREF

* changes to conhost and terminal renderdata, and to terminal settings and core

* IT WORKS

* modification of unit tests, json schemas, reordering of functions

* more movement

* changed a couple of unit tests to add selectionBackground, added the setting to schemas, also added the optional setting to profiles

* default selection background should be slightly offwhite like the default foreground is

* reverting changes to .sln

* cleaning up

* adding comment

* oops

* added clangformat to my vs hehe

* moving selectionBackground to IControlSettings and removing from ICoreSettings

* trying to figure out why the WHOLE FILE LOOKS LIKE ITS CHANGED

* here it goes again

* pls

* adding default foreground as the default for selection background in dx
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ghost commented Nov 26, 2019

🎉This issue was addressed in #3471, which has now been successfully released as Windows Terminal Preview v0.7.3291.0.:tada:

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