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Eugbug
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Ireland
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Posted - Jun 04 2013 : 7:21:58 PM

I'm using Atmel Studio for Compiling Arduino ketches. Since I rebooted my machine, the syntax highlighting has disappeared on the file in the editor. I deleted my project and created a new Arduino project from my .ino sketch file but this didn't solve the problem.
I don't know whether this is an issue with Atmel Studio or the Visual Assist plugin. The coloring only seems to be partly working. When I click on an item, it is colored and all instances of the item are coloured. However variables, keywords, control structures etc are just black on white.
I tried clicking the "Use Defaults" button under Tools - Options - Environment - Fonts and Colors, but this didn't make any difference.

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Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
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Posted - Jun 05 2013 : 09:58:13 AM

Atmel Studio is based on Visual Studio, and deleting the following usually helps with this problem with Visual Studio:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\VisualStudio\\10.0\\FontAndColors\\Cache\
So you should be able to find something similar for Atmel as well. First, exit Atmel Studio, delete the Cache and then start Atmel Studio again. Proceed only if you are sure you have found the correct registry key to delete. It should look like this:

Eugbug
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Ireland
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Posted - Jun 05 2013 : 10:10:32 AM

I re-installed the Arduino Ide for Atmel Studio and it rectified the problem. I'll try your suggestion if the problem reoccurs. Thanks for the help!