Low contrast for "measure distance" labels

[fuser234]

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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[chrisb]

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?

[fuser234]

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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[Kunda1]

pinged by pinger macro

CC @OficineRobotica Hi, quick question, is this addressed at all in Link branch ?

[OficineRobotica]

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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[Kunda1]

Thanks @OficineRobotica. That screenshot looks amazing btw

[fuser234]

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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(screenshots taken after updating to FreeCAD_weekly-builds-28872-Linux-Conda_glibc2.12-x86_64)

[fuser234]

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.

[Kunda1]

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?

[adrianinsaval]

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