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

Question

I have a big problem while using Delphi XE under Windows 7. The color of the tab for the active PAS file (Delphi IDE editor) is almost identical with the color of the inactive tabs. So you cannot really tell which is the active tab. Any of you have the same problem? How to fix this?

Answer 1

AFAIK, there is not plugin (yet) to set custom colors for the IDE tabs (TIDEGradientTabSet) , but you can accomplish this task creating a OTA (open tools API) plugin to access the tabs and change the colors. The OTA doesn't expose a interface to manipulate this component directly but you can use the RTTI to access this class and the Color related properties. You can see a dump of this component here (part of the DITE project), which was made using RTTI.