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znakeeye
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Posted - Feb 15 2008 :  11:14:18 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This happens quite frequently (not sure exactly what triggers it though)! Consider this: 
#ifdef SOME_DEFINE
   DoStuff();
#endif

foo(x);
bar(y);
baz(z);
If I edit some stuff inside the ifdef-clause, all code below the #endif-statement is grayed out! Re-parsing or re-opening the document does not help. It seems you simply have to wait a minute or so, to get your syntax colors back. Frustration? LOL :)

rhummer
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USA
527 Posts
Posted - Feb 15 2008 :  11:26:30 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
IIRC the grayed out coloring is done by Visual Studio, which is pretty flaky in VS2005, not sure if they have improved this with 2008.
Tools Engineer - Raven Software
VS2005 SP2/VS2008 SP1 - VAX <LATEST> - Win 7 x64
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
18939 Posts
Posted - Feb 15 2008 :  8:58:39 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This is the IDE, see the option:

IDE tools menu -> Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> Formatting -> Colorize inactive code blocks in a different color

Personally I turned this off quite quickly, since it is always really slow to update, and not terribly accurate / useful, at least not in my experience.
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