[plt-scheme] Re: test-coverage and colorblindness

Thanks for the change!

Is there a reason the color/style couldn't be made configurable? It
looks like there are similar option for Java.

~ Aleks

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:01:41PM -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
> Thanks. There is no way to change it, except by editing the source
> code and recompiling. It is not difficult to do. Around line 1000 in
> plt/collects/drscheme/private/debug.ss, you'll find the string
> "firebrick". Replace it with "maroon" and I think things will be
> better. You should probably run setup-plt after that (but I don't
> think it is, strictly speaking, necessary).
> 
> I've made this change in SVN, so it should be better in future versions.
> 
> Here's a screenshot so you can see how it looks:
> 
>   http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~robby/tmp/new-colors.png
> 
> As far as "never ... with only color" goes, that seems too difficult
> to me. I've tried to instead feed drscheme into various color
> blindness filters from time to time to see how it looks and tried to
> work with that. (One problem with the bold suggestion: bold letter are
> not reliably the same width as their non-bold counterparts, even in
> so-called 'monospaced' fonts.)
> 
> Anyways, if those colors aren't good, please let me know!
> 
> Thanks,
> Robby
> 
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Aleks Bromfield <aleks at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
> > Note that my email was prompted by an email from a student:
> >
> >> I have red-green color blindness and I can't see the color differences
> >> between the tested and untested lines. Until I read this email carefully, I
> >> thought that "syntactic test suite coverage" was just broken on my machine.
> >>
> >> Can these colors be changed? I didn't see relevant options in a cursory look
> >> through Preferences.
> >
> > ~ Aleks
> >
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