How to improve the visibility of the current tab in the Delphi IDE?

Question

I have a big problem when using Delphi XE under Windows 7. The tab color for the active PAS file (Delphi IDE editor) is almost identical to the color of inactive tabs. Therefore, you cannot say which one is active. Do any of you have the same problem? How to fix it?

Answer 1

AFAIK, there are no plugins to set custom colors for IDE tabs ( TIDEGradientTabSet ), but you can accomplish this task by creating an OTA plugin (an open API tool) for accessing tabs and changing colors. OTA does not provide an interface for directly managing this component, but you can use RTTI to access this class and color-related properties. You can see the dump of this component here (part of the DITE project), which was made using RTTI.