madcad.show() how to change backgroundcolor?

[GlennWSo]

How do change the background color when calling show() ?

As i run a darkmode in my text editor find the default white background to be blinding.

Maybe something is wrong with my system.

Example:

import madcad as cad
nut = cad.nut(5)
cad.show([nut])

My Result:

What I want:

[jimy-byerley]

Welcome here :)
The default color mode is the system color as seen from Qt, meaning its the system color when using the KDE desktop environment on linux (dark in my case) or any Qt based desktop, and white everywhere else.

You can customize the colors by either

• disabling the system color theme and let madcad use its own colors

  cad.settings.display['systeme_theme'] = False

  Or changing the matching value in ~/.config/madcad/pymadcad.yaml
• changing the color palette of Qt (this is in case you're making an application integrating madcad)

[GlennWSo]

Thx!
Now i can take off my sunglases 8-)

cad.settings.display['system_theme'] = False works like a charm!
I will use the file madcad/settings.py for reference in the future.

[GlennWSo]

is there a sample pymadcad.yaml somewhere that i can use as a base in my ~/.config/madcad/pymadcad.yaml ?

[jimy-byerley]

Nice !
Also for the config file: by default madcad.settings doesn't create the config file. But you can ask to create it using madcad.settings.install() and modify the content of the config as you want. the config is loaded when madcad is imported the first time in the program.

[jimy-byerley]

madcad.settings.install() does create the config file using the current settings in madcad.settings, which are the base settings if not altered by the program

[GlennWSo]

Awesome! 😊