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darbotron
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Posted - Jun 09 2010 :  5:51:25 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi

I'm finding that some of the text colouration features of VAX aren't picking up my custom background and foreground colours.

I've set background as black and foreground as white as my defaults for all text editor and [all text tool windows] in the VS2010 options (i.e. Tools->options->Environment->Fonts and colours).

The following features don't seem to pick this up (there may be others I guess):

1) Advanced -> Refactoring -> Highlight references using...
This correclty uses the background colours I set in the VAX option dialog, but doesn't pick up my custom foreground colour (it uses black).

2) Advanced -> Display -> Highlight matching {} and ()
This uses the foreground colour I set in the option, but doesn't pick up my custom background colour (it uses white). Bizarrely, this option works fine (i.e. picks up my custom background colour) as long as I have my cursor positioned exactly on the closing } or ).

3) Advanced -> Display -> Highlight mismatching {} and ()
This uses the foreground colour I set in the option, but doesn't pick up my custom background colour (it uses white).

If this is just a case of my needing to set the foreground / background colours elsewhere in VS to make it work then please let me know where to do this :)

Regards,

Alex

accord
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Posted - Jun 10 2010 :  03:58:01 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You can also find the Visual Assist colors in the IDE options dialog where you can set the background colors as well:

IDE tools menu -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors -> Display items = VA X Brace Matching

You will find other items beggining with VA X ... here.
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darbotron
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Posted - Jun 10 2010 :  6:06:14 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Genius!

Totally missed those because I'd done the colour setup before installing VAX.

Much appreciated :)

Alex
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jeoffh
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Posted - Aug 12 2010 :  11:15:16 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I am experiencing this bug in VS2008 and I tried to change the background color (Tools->options->Environment->Fonts and colors) but only the Item Foreground color is enabled, the Item Background is disabled (and forced to white instead of just "Default"). Same thing for spelling and syntax errors.

Could you offer advice on how to change the background color to Default or anything else for these settings? I am on version 10.6.1827 from 2010/6/11.
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feline
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Posted - Aug 12 2010 :  12:19:14 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
VA Spelling and syntax errors use a coloured underline. So the background colour is disabled since it is never used, never drawn. The background colour is what ever the overall text editor background colour happens to be.

Which item are you trying to change the background colour for?

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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jeoffh
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Posted - Aug 12 2010 :  12:22:23 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote


Matching braces, please.
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Posted - Aug 12 2010 :  2:33:57 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I was able to change the background and the foreground color using VA 1829 and VS2010:


What Visual Assist and Visual Studio version are you using?
Did you happen to restart Visual Studio after the color change?
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feline
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Posted - Aug 12 2010 :  2:47:43 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I am seeing the problem in VS2008, apologies for this, it seems to be a regression in recent builds of VA:

case=48634

you should be able to set the background colour for matching and mismatching brackets.

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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Posted - Sep 20 2010 :  10:18:01 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
case=48634 is fixed in build 1832

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jeoffh
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Posted - Oct 11 2010 :  1:06:41 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have installed version 1833 using VS2008 and I still see a white background with the appropriate color matching parentheses. I am also seeing a white background on mismatched parentheses too. I must be missing something is there supposed to be an option to set the background color too?
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feline
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Posted - Oct 12 2010 :  10:30:06 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
If you look at the IDE options dialog, Fonts and Colors settings, you can set both the foreground and background colour for the items "VA X Brace Error" and "VA X Brace Matching"

It sounds like you need to change the background colour from white to your background colour.

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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jeoffh
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Posted - Oct 12 2010 :  10:47:54 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks for the reminder Feline, it works great!
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