Bug with color of highlighted background of cards in browse window on 2.1.55+

[paragon0000]

Problem description

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The option to change "highlighted background" is broken on 2.1.55+. It correctly changes the color of items in the dropdown menus but does not change the color of highlighted cards in the browse window. On 2.1.55+ the add-on defaults to a bright green color for highlighted cards in the browse window. This add on is working as intended in 2.1.54 but not in 2.1.55+. See attached screenshots.

Checklist

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• [x] I've restarted Anki to see if it helps
• [x] I've verified that I use the latest version of the add-on by redownloading it from AnkiWeb
• [x] I've tried to disable other add-ons to see if there are any interactions present
• [x] My issue disappears when I hold shift while starting Anki.
• [x] I've checked if anyone else reported this problem before by looking through the issue reports. I also checked to see if there is a section about known issues in the add-on description, documentation, or README.

What Anki version are you using?

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2.1.55 qt6

Error message (if any)

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[AnKingMed]

I actually wonder if this was fixed in 2.1.56. Heard rumors it might be. Can you try that?

[paragon0000]

Just tried it on 2.1.56 qt6 and I'm still having the same problem

[AnKingMed]

@BlueGreenMagick can you look into this?

[BlueGreenMagick]

Does it work after closing and reopening Browse window?

[Spyhund]

I have the same issue on 2.1.55 and 2.1.56. No change after closing and reopening browse window

[paragon0000]

Yeah same here

[arisp99]

@BlueGreenMagick, this seems to be an issue with the SELECTED_BG variable in the config.

https://github.com/AnKing-Memberships/AnkiRecolor/blob/6c08bf6e80d25f6a73768279b46681f0f494a676/src/addon/config.json#L40

The hex codes defined in the theme are not valid, so Anki defaults to a bright green. If you change that color in the settings (or advanced settings), the color highlight will be correct.

Note that these incorrect hex codes also appear in most of the built-in themes.

[AnKingMed]

@BlueGreenMagick are you able to fix this?

[AnKingMed]

@abdnh @BlueGreenMagick told me he was going into the military soon and I haven't heard from him in a while so he may be gone already. Can you look into fixing this? It looks like it's probably simple (hopefully)

[abdnh]

I pushed a change that fixed the issue for me on 2.1.60.

@paragon0000 @Spyhund let us know if that doesn't work for you after the next release. Note that the color of selected browser rows is governed by the Selected Bg option, not Highlight background (maybe this was different in older Anki versions).

@arisp99

The hex codes defined in the theme are not valid

The codes are valid.

If you change that color in the settings (or advanced settings), the color highlight will be correct.

Did you test that? In what Anki version?

[paragon0000]

Just to let you know there is still this issue because of the incorrect hex codes on SELECTED_BG even on 2.1.60. d6d6d680 and 93c5fd80 are invalid hex codes so changing them fixed the issue as @arisp99 said.

[abdnh]

The colors are technically correct CSS colors that should work in all recent browsers (check out the link in my previous reply), but Qt apparently doesn't understand eight-digit colors yet. I'll look into updating the themes.