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There are two basic faces:
ecb-default-general-face:
Basic face for displaying an ECB-tree-buffer.
Itīs recommended to define the font-family, the font-size, the basic color etc. with this face.
In GNU Emacs 21.X all faces (even the face
ecb-default-highlight-face) used in the ECB tree-buffers
inherit from this face. Therefore the default attributes like font
etc. of a face used in a tree-buffer can be very easily changed with
face ecb-default-general-face.
With XEmacs and GNU Emacs 20.X there is no inheritance-feature but the
options ecb-directories-general-face,
ecb-sources-general-face, ecb-methods-general-face and
ecb-history-general-face offer the choice to use the face
ecb-default-general-face so also with XEmacs and GNU Emacs 20.X
the basic face-settings can be easily changed just by customizing the
face ecb-default-general-face.
ecb-default-highlight-face:
Basic face for highlighting the current node in an ECB-tree-buffer.
In GNU Emacs 21.X all highlighting faces used in the ECB tree-buffers
inherit from this face. Therefore the default attributes like font
etc. of a highlighting face used in a tree-buffer can be very easily
changed with face ecb-default-highlight-face.
With XEmacs and GNU Emacs 20.X there is no inheritance-feature but the
options ecb-directory-face, ecb-source-face,
ecb-method-face and ecb-history-face offer the choice to
use the face ecb-default-highlight-face so also with XEmacs and
GNU Emacs 20.X the basic face-settings can be easily changed just by
customizing the face ecb-default-highlight-face.
With these faces you can change the basic attributes easily and fast for ALL ECB-tree-buffers. But you are also able to display each ECB-tree-buffer with different faces, see the different options for every tree-buffer mentioned above.
Please note (only for XEmacs users): Cause of the lack of the
font-inheritance feature using ONE other font for the ECB-methods
buffer can NOT be achieved just by setting
ecb-methods-general-face to ecb-default-general-face and
changing the font of this default face. In addition you have to set
the same font also for the face ecb-bucket-node-face like in
the following example:
(defconst my-ecb-font
"-outline-Courier-normal-normal-13-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1")
(set-face-font 'ecb-default-general-face my-ecb-font)
(set-face-font 'ecb-bucket-node-face my-ecb-font)
This code sets the new defined font my-ecb-font as font for
all1 ECB-tree-buffers (incl. the methods
buffer).
Of course ecb-directories-general-face,
ecb-sources-general-face, ecb-methods-general-face and
ecb-history-general-face must be set to
ecb-default-general-face!