SetColors
Description
Setup colors. The IDA Colors dialog lets you change the active theme or fine-tune the one currently in use. Each tab lets you customize specific parts of the UI.
IDA keeps the color configuration in the registry. There are 3 predefined schemes. The user can modify the existing schemes or add his own schemes. New schemes should be added to the "themes" subdirectory in IDA.
Windows 11 style contrast
By default, IDA uses the "out-of-the-box" Qt style - named windows11.
That style mimics the core Microsoft Windows 11 theme, with which some users have reported some discomfort due to low-contrast hints.
This is observable especially in "tabular" widgets, where the selection painted using an somewhat discrete overlay:
Addressing this naïvely (e.g., by overriding the selection entries through CSS) might do more harm than good though, so we have decided against that.
Instead, we recommend using the Qt "Fusion" style, which offers significantly better contrast:
This is achievable by opening the "Environment variables" dialog, and adding an entry called QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE with the value fusion.
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