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David_Kelly
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 Posted - Jan 08 2013 : 03:41:06 AM
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| Additionally to the color, it would be helpful when the style could also be set: bold, italic, underline |
Edited by - David_Kelly on Feb 11 2013 12:52:39 AM |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Jan 08 2013 : 12:37:20 PM
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You can do this to a limited degree, via the options:
VA Options -> Advanced -> Fonts and Colors -> Local symbols in Bold
VA Options -> Advanced -> Fonts and Colors -> Stable symbols in Italic
In newer versions of Visual Studio you can also make some changes in the IDE's Font and Color settings.
Underlining is reserved for indicating errors, either mistyped symbols or spelling errors in comments:
http://www.wholetomato.com/products/features/misspelled.asp
http://www.wholetomato.com/products/features/mistyped.asp |
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David_Kelly
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Posted - Jan 08 2013 : 4:46:10 PM
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thanks for answering. as you wrote "limited"..
I would like to make all those things bold or italic, for which I can set colors in the VA dialog.
and with underline I meant not the red wavy line, but a continous stroke line |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Jan 10 2013 : 4:57:13 PM
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Making these bold or italic will break the existing local symbols in bold, and stable symbols in italic.
Which IDE are you using? VS2012 offers quite a lot of control over the colours and formatting of various symbol types, which might help you here. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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David_Kelly
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Posted - Jan 11 2013 : 03:37:38 AM
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Originally posted by feline
Making these bold or italic will break the existing local symbols in bold, and stable symbols in italic.
This would not affect me, as I set the colors properly. I want all symbols which are somehow known in bold. Italic is not so important but solid line. When using small italic fonts they are simply unreadable.
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Which IDE are you using? VS2012 offers quite a lot of control over the colours and formatting of various symbol types, which might help you here.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Jan 18 2013 : 4:59:20 PM
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Apologies for the slow reply.
In VS2010 some of the underlining comes from the IDE, we don't have any control over this. Trying to put solid underlines in along with the wavy underlines is going to clash at best, and probably render both sets of underlining much less visible.
Small italic fonts is an issue, stable symbols in italic only works well with some fonts and sizes.
Setting all symbols to bold should be easy enough in VS2010, by using the IDE font and color settings, but this is not going to be all known symbols. Do you want all known symbols to be bold to make them more readable? Known symbols should be clear already since they are coloured according to their type, while unknown symbols are underlined. |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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David_Kelly
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Posted - Jan 25 2013 : 06:06:56 AM
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Seem I did not explain well..
I simply want to have two additional checkboxes (bold + underline) close to the color entries "Classes,..", "Variables", "Preprocessor.." and "Methods". Those are in the "Fonts and Colors" dialog. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Jan 30 2013 : 10:36:14 PM
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Unfortunately underlining is just going to cause problems, since this is going to interferer with the existing underlining that the IDE already does.
Why would you want to make everything bold? Isn't it quicker and easier to just increase the font size in the IDE by one or two points, if it is a matter of readability? |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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David_Kelly
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Posted - Feb 01 2013 : 08:26:44 AM
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Originally posted by feline
Why would you want to make everything bold? Isn't it quicker and easier to just increase the font size in the IDE by one or two points, if it is a matter of readability?
What an idea to increase the font size.. Why you don't simply reply "No, I don't like to do it", then situation would be clearer to me. I give up. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Feb 01 2013 : 9:10:49 PM
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I have tried to explain why there is a problem with underlining in the IDE. What I fail to understand is why making all symbols that VA can understand bold, which appears to be what you are asking for, would help.
What is the difference with simply going into the IDE options and setting everything to bold? In addition this would stop you using bold for local variables. Am I missing something here? |
zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness |
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sean
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Feb 01 2013 : 11:03:32 PM
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In VS2010+, bold can be set for a number of VA color elements via Tools | Options | Environment | Fonts and Colors.
In the Display items list, scroll to the items that start with "VA X"
That dialog does not support italic or underline options.
case=72150 is a feature request for exposing more font options supported by the editor. |
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David_Kelly
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Posted - Feb 11 2013 : 12:49:09 AM
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| SOLVED! Thanks!! |
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Syntax Coloring - FIXED
