I've seen this for years with Visual Studio and would like to finally understand it.
I'll be coding in VS and I want to increase my text editor font size. My typical method is to use use CTRL+MOUSEWHEEL to increase it. As text in text editor gets bigger, so does the text in the Output Window. They're sync-ed.
That makes the output window font size larger than I want so then I go to...
Tools >> Options >> Environment >> Fonts and Colors
...change the category to "Output Window" and change the font size. And yes, that certainly works. But it has the odd side-effect of making the output window stop tracking with the code window. Now, if I use CTRL+MOUSEWHEEL to adjust the code window font size, the output window does not change.
But then, a month or two later, I will notice that they're tracking together again.
What is it that made the two track together? Is there any way to toggle that tracking on and off?
(Both windows use "Courier New" for a font, if that matters)
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Although I just got a quick answer to my dumb question about setting the main font size of the Visual Studio Diagnostics window, I later realized that has no effect on the size of the tooltips or context menus. So now, when I shrink my Diagnostics window text down now to a reasonable size and hover over the memory graph, the tooltip font is still dramatically too large for its own window.
A similar effect happens if I right click to look at the context menu. Unfortunately the mouse wheel has no effect on these. Neither does changing the size of the following items in Tools >> Options >> Fonts and Colors
Editor Tooltips
Code Lens
Data Tips
Perf Tips
Does anyone know a way I can make the tooltips readable?
So, I was wondering if someone knows a program (VS extension) that you can for example, click on a button (aka option), than you select what element (in your code) you want to edit, pick a new color and save it...?
eg. you click on void, it says something like, selected Data Types, and a window to edit color. Or you click on a scroll bar, it says something like, selected scroll bar, and so one..
I was looking for it, but all I can find is basically like "Color picker", "Color theme editor for Visual Studio"...
Even if it's not extension, maybe program or web site...
Thanks in advance.
OK... So there is some way to make it easier, but it's still quite boring / hard / annoying task to do. (Works only with Visual Studio 2019)
Download Visual Studio Color Theme Designer.
You'll need some sort of capturing technique (eg. Snipping Tool - comes with Windows 10).
Launch your VS2019 and capture element/color you want to edit.
Extract the hex value of that color (eg. Paint 3D - comes with Windows 10).
Follow the instructions on VSCTD website (Marketplace) on creating theme and when you're done with opening solution, in "All elements" page, paste the value you got, and to make it easier to search, select "Sort by: Color".
Edit the color you think corresponds to desired element and check if that's the color that you were looking for.
Repeat until you're done.
This method is similar to using Color Theme Editor for Visual Studio 2019, but it gives you option to create automatically some theme and then you edit small parts of it (removes the trouble of editing huge amounts of colors)
You can edit color themes for types of keywords for a language in Visual Studio. For example, I've set mine so that interfaces are a light purple instead of the normal blue.
As far as I know, you can't set the colors for a specific object (like have variable 1 in orange, and variable 2 in gray), but you can set the font colors for code types (so structs are orange, and classes are gray).
You can read more about this here.
Is it possible to make these tiny messages larger? I didn't find it preferences.
It is indeed: head over to Xcode - Preferences and find the Fonts and Colors section. Switch to the Console Tab and select an option you want to change (typically Executable Console Output and Debugger Console Output appear in the debugger).
Now click the tiny little T icon at the bottom and change the font to something more palatable. The default font is Menlo 11.
Alternatively you can switch to either of the Presentation presets, which will increase the font size for the debugger and your code font (good for screencasts).
It appears that the font size of the tiny red error messages is governed by the space available: if you make the default font size larger (or the size of any of the elements on that line), the error message will expand to fit.
An alternative is to show the issue navigator on the left, which has larger type, especially if you fiddle around in the preferences and allow more than 3 lines per entry, or whatever the default setting is.
I am using visual studios 2008. My laptop has the max screen res of 1366x768.
What can i do to get more reading space? i was thinking of making the font smaller but it would be more helpful if i can make everything smaller (toolbar icons, text, etc)
The only improvement i done so far was remove a bunch of things under the toolbar so i have only one line. Actually for this project i remove the standard bar so i have have the solution and text directly under the menu with no toolbar. What else can i do to maximize reading space.
Tools > Options > Environment > General > Uncheck "Show status bar"
Tools > Options > Text Editor > All Languages > Uncheck "Navigation bar"
Install the "Hide Main Menu" extension available here.
Enable Auto-hide the taskbar in your Windows Taskbar properties.
That should get you at least 5-7 more lines.
Dual screens. The more pixels the better. I like 1920x1280 extended to across a matched monitor with vertically split tabs.
Probably not the answer you are looking for, but really, it HELPS A LOT.
Ok ok:
Try Lucida Console as a font - it's readable at 8pt - and fixed width!
Hit Alt+Shift+Enter to get into Full Screen mode.
Float all your "helper" windows and use Ctrl+Tab to get to them. (Click using mouse)
Pin your Windows Task Bar to the left or right of your screen to give more vertical reading space.
What I do is unpin all the various tool windows and views. Unpin the Solution Explorer, Properties viewer, Output etc. and the Toolbar. This leaves you with just the coding window and small bars around that allow you to hover over the edges of the window and see everything you just unpinned.
set the Solution explorer on the right to Auto-Hide, close the error window when possible (as in when you're not fixing errors), and try and drop the number of toolbars vertically to 1. You can also change the size of the text down by going to Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and colors but i wouldn't shrink the text unless you have good vision. I recommend Consolas 12 Point for your code; it's a bit big but very nice looking!
I got rid of the toolbars altogether and made things like the Solution Explorer autohide. I came to the realisation that the only toolbar button I ever used was a custom tool one I'd put there (I use the menu for that now). I'm running at 1920x1200 so real estate wasnt an issue - I just wanted less visual distractions. Just me and the code.
By default, Visual Studio tooltips remain visible for 10 seconds and then they disappear. I find this time too short to read some of the longer tooltips. Is there a way to increase the time they remain visible?
Whenever I encounter such a problem, I just press print screen and read the text in my favorite paint program.
I never understood why the tooltip timeout is not based on the length of the content.
My understanding is that ToolTips preferences are controlled at the system display level (i.e., as part of Windows settings). As far as I know, there is still no way to lengthen the time that a tip is displayed.
I recommend Shay Erlichmen's trick of using print screen to capture the tip. Paste into a paint program and you can read the whole thing. Then close the paint program without saving.