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Changing faces in the ECB tree-buffers

There are two basic faces:

• ecb-default-general-face: Basic face for displaying an ECB-tree-buffer.

  Itīs recommended to define the font-family, the font-size, the basic color etc. with this face.

  In GNU Emacs 21.X all faces (even the face ecb-default-highlight-face) used in the ECB tree-buffers inherit from this face. Therefore the default attributes like font etc. of a face used in a tree-buffer can be very easily changed with face ecb-default-general-face.

  With XEmacs and GNU Emacs 20.X there is no inheritance-feature but the options ecb-directories-general-face, ecb-sources-general-face, ecb-methods-general-face and ecb-history-general-face offer the choice to use the face ecb-default-general-face so also with XEmacs and GNU Emacs 20.X the basic face-settings can be easily changed just by customizing the face ecb-default-general-face.

• ecb-default-highlight-face: Basic face for highlighting the current node in an ECB-tree-buffer.

  In GNU Emacs 21.X all highlighting faces used in the ECB tree-buffers inherit from this face. Therefore the default attributes like font etc. of a highlighting face used in a tree-buffer can be very easily changed with face ecb-default-highlight-face.

  With XEmacs and GNU Emacs 20.X there is no inheritance-feature but the options ecb-directory-face, ecb-source-face, ecb-method-face and ecb-history-face offer the choice to use the face ecb-default-highlight-face so also with XEmacs and GNU Emacs 20.X the basic face-settings can be easily changed just by customizing the face ecb-default-highlight-face.

With these faces you can change the basic attributes easily and fast for ALL ECB-tree-buffers. But you are also able to display each ECB-tree-buffer with different faces, see the different options for every tree-buffer mentioned above.

Please note (only for XEmacs users): Cause of the lack of the font-inheritance feature using ONE other font for the ECB-methods buffer can NOT be achieved just by setting ecb-methods-general-face to ecb-default-general-face and changing the font of this default face. In addition you have to set the same font also for the face ecb-bucket-token-face like in the following example:

(defconst my-ecb-font
          "-outline-Courier-normal-normal-13-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1")
(set-face-font 'ecb-default-general-face my-ecb-font)
(set-face-font 'ecb-bucket-token-face my-ecb-font)

This code sets the new defined font my-ecb-font as font for all¹ ECB-tree-buffers (incl. the methods buffer).

Footnotes

1. Of course ecb-directories-general-face, ecb-sources-general-face, ecb-methods-general-face and ecb-history-general-face must be set to ecb-default-general-face!