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Hello everybody,
I have been using VisualGDB for a long time now. Since I installed the latest version (5.6, currently as trial) in VS Community 22 (Version 17.6.2) the colors of the syntax highlighting are changing from time to time. Especially, the color of the brackets are black and defines are in an ugly blue. It is a very annoying behavior.
To reset the colors, I have to reinstall the theme (One Dark Pro) again. Is there a setting I need to change to prevent this random color changing?
Best regards,
Mario
Hi,
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Hi,
my license has been renewed 🙂 Back to my question again: Is there a setting I need to change to prevent this random color changing?
Regards,
Mario
Hi,
Thanks for renewing your license.
VisualGDB uses the regular Visual Studio color storage to manage its syntax highlighting colors. Sometimes, changing the theme breaks the values stored there, and restarting VS normally restores them. If not, changing the theme there and back, and then restarting typically fully fixes the colors.
If a specific color is off, you can change it directly as shown on this page: https://visualgdb.com/documentation/colors/
This issue continues to recur, one moment the fix works, and the next time I open VS, it malfunctions once more. This behavior is consistent across both my main desktop PC and my working laptop. It’s hard to believe that I’m the only one experiencing this problem.
I also tried the default VS theme … same behavior. I attached a screenshot of the color change.
Do you know what is causing this? Maybe a bad combination of VS plugins or settings? I am searching for a permanent solution because it’s really annoying.
Regards,
Mario
Hi,
It is probably caused by some rare combination of settings you use on both computers, or by a conflict with another VS extension. Our best advice would be to first try disabling other VS extensions. If it doesnt’ solve the problem, try pinpointing one specific color that gets broken (e.g. the preprocessor directives shown on the screenshots) and try manually overriding it to something visually different (e.g. green), and restarting VS a few times. Does the setting get reverted at any point? If yes, is there a specific trigger to it?
Hi again,
I disabled all extensions except for VisualGDB. As you recommended, I manually changed one color. However, this color also broke when it happened again. After switching between the default blue theme and One Dark Pro, the colors were right, including the manually altered one.
I disabled VisualGDB and used One Dark Pro for some normal Qt programming. No random changes of the colors occur. In my opinion, it must be the combination of VisualGDB and One Dark Pro.
Do you have any suggestions what the cause of this?
Mario
Hi,
This is a tricky one. In our experience, the Visual Studio color storage is prone to sometimes resetting/mixing up colors. Normally, VisualGDB can automatically detect it and reset the cache, but it could be that the One Dark Pro uses some other workaround that interferes with it.
Our best advice would be to try the regular VS dark color theme, and tweaking it to match the colors from One Dark Pro.
I have the same issue. My workaround is manually change these color settings. Although, it is hard to find out which display-item is what I want.
Tool>Options>Environment>Fonts and Colors>Text Editor
Display items > Operator (for the symbols “=”, “:”)
Display items > Preprocessor Keyword (for #if)
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