Low contrast for "measure distance" labels

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Low contrast for "measure distance" labels

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I am using Freecad 0.2 (28793 Git), and the labels from the measurement tool appear as white on light green when the part or a face is selected. This gets even worse with the pre-selection highlighting (white on yellow). Early video players had a similar problem, which was is usually solved by adding an outline, but the colors could also be inverted, or a background could be added behind the text to increase the contrast. While I changed the default colors (the pre-highlighting is way too light), the faces sometimes take like colors due to the illumination and the problem re-appears. Is it worth reporting a bug for this?
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Re: Low contrast for "measure distance" labels

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fuser234 wrote: Mon May 09, 2022 7:29 pm Is it worth reporting a bug for this?
It's not a bug, although it is inconvenient. Before creating a feature request: Is this different with different style sheets?
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Re: Low contrast for "measure distance" labels

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It's not a bug, although it is inconvenient.
I thought there were usability bugs (accessibility matters, UX problems...), so it was the right move to ask. I will create a "feature request" instead.
Before creating a feature request: Is this different with different style sheets?
Yes, the stylesheets do not seem to apply to the 3d view in FreeCAD 0.20 (28793 Git):

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Re: Low contrast for "measure distance" labels

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CC @OficineRobotica Hi, quick question, is this addressed at all in Link branch ?
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Re: Low contrast for "measure distance" labels

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CC @Kunda1 lol and this way I discovered a bug in Linkstage3. Mesure Labels are not displayed with experimental renderer.

Anyway, the color of the measurement line and text can be controlled in the ComboView -> View -> Line Color - > Text Color It should be the same in master
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Re: Low contrast for "measure distance" labels

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Thanks @OficineRobotica. That screenshot looks amazing btw
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Re: Low contrast for "measure distance" labels

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I saw that view after you mentioned it. I previously tried right-clicking on the line object and selecting "Appearance" -> "Display properties", but in that case the text color is not editable (the shape color is white and disabled for some reason):
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In my case, I use the measurements for inspection purposes, so I never keep them around. The default color is always white, including the tiny mouse pointer. Is there a way to change the white color for all new lines and for the mouse pointer?
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Re: Low contrast for "measure distance" labels

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It appears that the cursor colors are entirely hard-coded:

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob ... .cpp#L3176

The default Qt cursor is much better because it is larger and has a proper outline (screenshot after applying the default CrossCursor and recompiling):
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All other cursors in that source file to suffer from the same problem: they are missing an outline to be readable. I am still searching where the default white color is set for the lines and text labels.
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Re: Low contrast for "measure distance" labels

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fuser234 wrote: Sun May 15, 2022 7:00 pm The default Qt cursor is much better because it is larger and has a proper outline (screenshot after applying the default CrossCursor and recompiling):
Nice experimentation!

CC @chennes would you happen to know where to look for the default white cursor color?
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Re: Low contrast for "measure distance" labels

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OficineRobotica wrote: Sat May 14, 2022 1:54 pm lol and this way I discovered a bug in Linkstage3. Mesure Labels are not displayed with experimental renderer.
Isn't that rather a known limitation? IIRC realthunder mentioned that some things like that aren't implemented yet
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