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I can't edit selected text foreground color in Visual Studio 2010. Anyone know how to do this?
In the Options->Environment->Fonts and Colors dialog you can choose Selected Text in the Display Items listbox, but this only allows you to change the Item background property.
How does one change the text color, so that for example I can have white text on a blue background when I select an item? Also, is there a way to bold the text (the Bold box is disabled also).
Note: Here is the question that asks about the background color change.
The foreground color in the VS2010 editor is not set in one place but in many within the Options Form. If you have Resharper installed it also sets some foreground properties. The reason VS2010 does this is to allow individual items (words) within the foreground to express different colors depending on their type (e.g. comments, value types, enums etc.) even when they are selected. In other words VS2010 applies a priority to the foreground color for these specific types over the generic selected text color format.
For instance, when you look at the Fonts and Colors dialog you will notice the entry for User Types. On my VS2010 its RGB value is RGB(43, 145, 175) which looks like teal. If I change that color to Red, the User Types on my editor's foreground color changes to Red and remains Red even when with the selection area.
In some instances VS2010 will override the foreground color such as applying a breakpoint to a line. On my VS2010 enabled breakpoints when in editing mode have a white foreground color, regardless of the terms in the line.
To answer your question of how one would change the foreground color for all selected text, VS2010 does not support this out of the box.
I wrote a VS2010 Extension as outlined here. I used the example code as is and added the lines:
selectedText[EditorFormatDefinition.ForegroundBrushId] = Brushes.Green;
formatMap.SetProperties("Selected Text", selectedText);
...but this did not change the foreground color of selected text to green. It stayed black. This is probably due to the VS2010 WPF editor using a Priority Order for each format and one or more other formats overriding the selected text foreground color.
Have you tried setting the colors on the 'Highlighted Reference' option in the Fonts and Colors window?
There is no individual setting for the Selected Text Foreground properties, it uses the Plain Text Settings for the Foreground in the Options Form, but this will only work for normal text, the Foreground colors for Properties, Comments and other specialty colored text will remain the same, there is no overriding Foreground color that can be used for all items.
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Anybody knows how to set the background for the vertical tabs?
I love that feature, but with my favourite theme you can't see squat...
...its gray on gray
I have the same problem. I wasn't able to find a way to change the background color, but at least I found a way to change the foreground color, so that at least the tabs become visible.
I have installed Color Theme Editor for VS 2019. It comes with many themes, which you can make a copy of, then edit the copy. In the color theme editor you must search for Document Well - Tab, then scroll to Unselected. Changing the background color here unfortunately only affects horizontal tabs, but changing the foreground do affects both horizontal and vertical tabs.
Here is a screenshot of the extension in action:
Don't forget to click on the "Save and apply theme" in the upper left corner of the extension page.
How can one change foreground (text color) of code completion box items while Fonts and Colors do not allow this?
If you want this change you can count on that it’s little bit tricky such it will affect other (more) items. So foreground will be changed in other undesired places.
Steps:
Install Color Theme Editor for Visual Studio.
In theme editor use Show All Elements toggle.
Find Environment ⟶ CommandBarTextActive.
Change color as you wish.
I want to set my terminal color scheme, such that I will have black text on light background (white or light yellow for example).
I changed "Console Colors" settings, such as Background, Standard output, and System output, under Editor > Colors & Fonts > Console Colors, but I keep running into the same problem.
If I change Background color to let's say white. It also changes text (Standard output and my user input to the same color). I can't figure out, which setting controls the color of the font, which appears in the terminal window. In fact, it appears that font color is the same as background color, which is confusing to me. I would expect to be able to independently control background color, and font color, which to me represents "Foreground".
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Changing colour in
Preferences->Editor->Color Scheme->Console Colors->Standard Output
should change the terminal font's colour.
I suppose it happened on Windows. If yes then it is affected/controlled by Windows registry. Try one of the following method:
Open Windows cmd and from drop down menu selects defaults. Then change the Text and Background colors to match your choice in PyCharm. The problem occurs if you have different color settings in Windows cmd instead of default.
Delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console key from Windows registry.
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To configure color and font scheme for consoles
Make sure you are working with an editable scheme.
Open the IDE Settings, and under Colors&Fonts, scroll through the list of components, and select the ones related to consoles:
Console Colors
Console Fonts
In the right-hand pane, click the desired component in the list, and change color settings and font type:
See Image of how to do it
I'm using the Visual Studio Color Theme Editor extension to help darken up VS2010, found a nice theme that I like however I've got one big problem with it.
On the Property sheet, at the bottom where it says the name of the property and a sort description this theme I'm using is impossible to read; Black on a dark grey background. Unfortunately, I don't know what this specific segment of the Property window is called to change it.
You can not change the text color with the extension.
To figure that out, copy FFFFFF, select all line in the theme editor configuration pane (with Shift), press Ctrl+V (yes, you can do that, pretty neat !) and hit apply : everything that can be themed will then appear white. The text however, will stay black.
You can hopefully change the background color : It's called ToolWindowBackground. It will affect all tool windows of course. There's no specific item for this window in particular.
Visual Studio 2010 highlights all references to the same variable (or class) when your cursor is placed over it.
with the theme I use highlighted references are white on white - making them virtually impossible to read. what is the name of "display item" in Options-> Environment Fonts and Colors that is responsible for that color?
changing Plain Text to a darker one partially solves an issue however that also changes color for lots of other stuff on a screen, so ideally would be to change a background for this type of "selection"..
There's one called "Highlighted Reference". You can only change the background color, I believe.