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jbabob
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 Posted - Nov 07 2013 : 10:31:23 AM
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Hello all,
I am using a dark theme with VS2005 and Visual Assist X release 1827. I want to change the brace matching colors to black with a white background to make them easier to see over the dark theme I'm using. The thing is although I can change the brace color, the background color is set to black and I can't change it. I tried going into both the Visual Studio and Visual Assist option menus with no success, and I remember being able to change the background color in the past using the same version of VS and VA. Can anyone help?
Here's an image of what the brace matching looks like. I would like the colors to be reverted (black brace with a white square around it).
Here's a picture of the option menu with the background color disabled. My friend is using the exact same versions as me and nothing is disabled on his.
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Dusan
Whole Tomato Software
Slovakia
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Posted - Nov 07 2013 : 11:53:30 AM
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Just set it and restart IDE - it should work.
I have had similar problems with setting background to yellow. |
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jbabob
New Member
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Posted - Nov 07 2013 : 11:56:10 AM
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| That's the thing, I can't set it as it's disabled. Restarting the IDE does not change anything |
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foxmuldr
Tomato Guru
USA
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Posted - Nov 07 2013 : 12:00:39 PM
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If you export settings, and then change the foreground color setting, and then export again, can you see what's different? Maybe you can add an "invisible" member to that option which would be changing the xml tag for "fore" into "back. Or learn from nearby items by changing their background to see explicitly what tag needs to be changed/added.
Where there's a will there's a way. :-)
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jbabob
New Member
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Posted - Nov 07 2013 : 12:41:27 PM
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That's genius! I exported my settings, and they turned out to be very simple to modify. I opened the file with a text editor and searched for "brace matching". It took me to this line:
<Item Name="VA X Brace Matching" Foreground="0x00FFFFFF" Background="0x0200000" BoldFont="Yes"/>
All I had to do was find the correct values for black and white (0x00000000 and 0x00FFFFFF, respectively) and change them. I ended up with this line:
<Item Name="VA X Brace Matching" Foreground="0x00000000" Background="0x00FFFFFF" BoldFont="Yes"/>
Then, I imported these settings in VS and it worked! Thank you so much for the help foxmuldr, I've been busting my brains to fix this for so long! |
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foxmuldr
Tomato Guru
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Posted - Nov 07 2013 : 12:49:07 PM
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| Awesome! :-) |
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Brace matching with dark theme colors
