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Add support for a separate color / image for padding area background

Open Psychlist1972 opened this issue 6 years ago • 6 comments

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

I'd like to be able to specify a separate background color, image, etc. for the area in the margin (padding) in the terminal window.

This uses a background image and padding value, but fails when resized to anything but the golden value of both.

c64 term

In straight-up XAML, I'd do this by having a window-wide background color/image, and then specifying something different for the area inside the padding.

Psychlist1972 avatar Jun 30 '19 00:06 Psychlist1972

And yes, my use-case is ... unique :D

Psychlist1972 avatar Jun 30 '19 00:06 Psychlist1972

Well now that just screams Atari. Puts me in mind of the 800XL

DHowett-MSFT avatar Jun 30 '19 00:06 DHowett-MSFT

Commodore 64 in my case, but does apply to a lot of 8-bit systems. 🕶

Psychlist1972 avatar Jun 30 '19 00:06 Psychlist1972

Triaging as "not a terrible idea." 😁

DHowett-MSFT avatar Jul 02 '19 03:07 DHowett-MSFT

If you want to take a moment and make it closer to the XAML approach, you have margin and padding. The meaning of each depends on how you're looking at it. You could consider having both where the margin would be what you allow to have a different color, and the padding would be any additional space then inside the terminal client/text area.

Psychlist1972 avatar Jul 03 '19 20:07 Psychlist1972

I'm trying to recreate the gorilla tag terminal. I got everything, the font, the colors, except for this padding thing! Screenshot (31)

CyberCatStudios avatar Aug 18 '24 00:08 CyberCatStudios