simple text bg color

[Kalman Tarr]

Hi every one,

I am here again with a new problem.

It is the first occasion to use in my scripts the tell application text edit  phrase.

I give a copy of my code:

    tell application "TextEdit"
        activate
        set nDocu to make new document at the front
        tell nDocu
            set its text to "text to text and text or any"
            set font of paragraph 1 to "HelveticaNeue-Bold"
            set size of every paragraph to 16
            set size of last paragraph to 12
            set size of paragraph 1 to 20
            set color of paragraph 1 to {65535, 0, 0} -- red

--- the above code is working good ---

-- But I don't find any solution for the next, to set background color in script.

-- It satisfies my needs to set the background of the entire document, not the lines itself.

        end tell
    end tell

The problem is, I don't like to read text with black text color on white BG.

I would like to change the seeing of document. Black BG and white or yellow Text.

Any suggestion .... Thanks in advance

It is possible at all? I read several pages in connection of this problem, somewhere they write down it is Not possible. Why not? I don't believe in.

Best

Kalman

[Joe Wilson]

I'm pretty certain that TextEdit takes its background color from MacOS's window manager.

Try setting your Mac to "Dark Mode" (Preferences -> General -> Choose [DARK] in the "Appearance" category")

It will make that change system-wide, but it's the only way I know to control the background color of TextEdit.

Cheers!

~joe

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[Kalman Tarr]

You have truth Joe,

I am using Macos High Sierra in this time. 

The question is related to the use of this system, unfortunately I did not mention it earlier.

When I bootup to the os Catalina, yes, the result is the same you mentioned mainly I’m using dark mode. 

Thx

Best,

Kalman