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Change colour of layout window when switching between edit/read mode

blankman

Hi All,

Im looking to write some code to change the colour or appearance of the layout window in some way when switching back and forth between edit mode and read mode. Im using IC6 and find it less obvious to see if a cellview is editable as compared to IC5. Is it possible to do this? I've had a look into editing window properties, but have run out of leads following this up in the documentation. Any help/suggestions appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Brian,

    I was wondering how you were proposing to do that bit (by the way, geGetEditCellViewWindow(geGetEditCellView()) is a bit of a complicated way of doing hiGetCurrentWindow()). You can't change the background colour of the window, nor can you change  the colours of other aspects of the window. The banner is down to the window manager.

    So I don't believe this is possible. You could add a banner label, but to be honest that's not really any different from it saying "Editing" or "Reading" in the window banner, I guess.

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Brian,

    I was wondering how you were proposing to do that bit (by the way, geGetEditCellViewWindow(geGetEditCellView()) is a bit of a complicated way of doing hiGetCurrentWindow()). You can't change the background colour of the window, nor can you change  the colours of other aspects of the window. The banner is down to the window manager.

    So I don't believe this is possible. You could add a banner label, but to be honest that's not really any different from it saying "Editing" or "Reading" in the window banner, I guess.

    Andrew.

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