The app's base default colours are never seen today as on creation of a new TBX document a color scheme is applied automatically. As of v8.0.0+ this is the scheme 'Modern'.
Applying a new colour scheme
A scheme can be applied one of two ways:
- Use the Document Settings:Colors tab, select the desired scheme and click apply. Once applied there is no indication as to the current scheme, i.e the last scheme applied. This settings tab lists both built-in schemes and, at the end of the list any custom colour scheme TBC files in the app's
Application Support/color schemesfolder. - Drag/drop a TBC file from any finder folder onto the view pane of the current
There is no reset!
Colour schemes can only add new colour definitions or set new colour values for pre-exiting named colours. However, A scheme closest to the original )v6+) Tinderbox named colours is 'Tinderbox 7'.
Deleting unwanted named colours
Removing unwanted custom (or even built-in) named colours must be done using the Colors Inspector: select the desired colour to remove and then click the button to the left of the colour chip.
Hiding colours
It may be desired to have named colours defined but for them not to show in colour pop-up menus. Note that the Colors Inspector's colours menu always lists all current named colours. A colour can be hidden by:
- adding the code ' hidden="1"' to a colour's definition in a colour scheme file's code.
- ticking the Hidden tickbox on the Colors Inspector. This control is a toggle so can be used to hide or reveal a defined colour.
Other scheme file code
In addition to named colours, scheme files can set (or reset defaults for) a number of application and view preferences, and separately of Color-type attributes. The range of allowed items in each of these two groups is not formally documented.
See also—notes linking to here: