set background of a row
mortezadadgar opened this issue · 2 comments
Hey,
sorry asking this as a issue there's no discussion to ask questions like this; as a personal project i have been trying to write a file explorer program to list files or directory based of their size so all i'm trying to is to set the background of a row in ui like this
512KiB Go <- I want the current selection row to have a separate background as others
128KiB C
I can set the background of size text and file/dirs individually which results into:
as you can see there's a space between them which is not affected by changing the style as they have different x position
this is the function that i used to draw this tree:
func drawTree(dirs []fileAttr, screen tcell.Screen) {
styleSizes := tcell.StyleDefault.Background(tcell.ColorBlack).Foreground(tcell.ColorYellow).Bold(true)
var y int
var style tcell.Style
for i, dir := range dirs {
var size string
if i == currentSel {
style = style.Background(tcell.ColorWhite).Foreground(tcell.ColorBlack)
} else {
style = style.Background(tcell.ColorBlack).Foreground(tcell.ColorWhite)
}
size = strconv.Itoa(dir.size / 1024 / 1024)
drawText(screen, 4, y, style, "MiB")
drawText(screen, 0, y, styleSizes, size)
drawText(screen, 10, y, style, dir.name)
y++
}
}one way i can think of is to change x position of remaining spaces between 4 and 10 but that would be so hacky
If you want to only change the style without changing the text you can do that. I thought I had created a SetStyle API, but it looks for setting the style on a given cell, but it looks like I didn't for some reason.
Anyway, you can do GetContent() , and then change the Style return value, and pass the results back to SetContent(). You can just iterate over all the cells.
I'll see if I can provide some better convenience functions for this, because changing the style seems super useful.
(I can also see wanting to have an API to quickly change the style of a region. So I might look at that too.)