I have been using vscodes default high contrast theme for years; somewhere in the past few releases a dotted box has been introduced, but I can't find anything in the release notes about it and inspecting tokens doesn't help. Can't narrow it down with developer window either.
Is there a way to disable / alter the white dotted border:
It appears to be reproducible in these scenarios:
Place cursor anywhere in the word boundary and navigate to any other panel/ui element that's not the editor (using shortcuts or mouse doesn't matter)
Pressing Ctrl+F anywhere on the word
I am currently using vscode 1.75
Same issue: find match highlight border color - unresolved and seems to be a reversion see
Borders styles for selection and word highlight:
We can do solid border styles for anything except high contrast. In
the high contrast theme, the same color is used for all of these
decorations and the only distinguishable trait is the border style.
But a PR was submitted and merged (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/46956) to change the dotted high contrast theme find... border colors to solid. So you should upvote the first issue mentioned above.
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Is it possible to highlight the currently selected group/object/list in vs code?
As you can see there is a "basic highlighting" the grey vertical line highlight. But I would like to use a (just a bit) lighter dark grey as background colour for all affected lines. Instead of just a simple grey vertical line.
Only for YAML files though.
Well the indent guide below selector is already highlighted to show its children.
You can try this extension which highlights other items on the same indentation depth.
I'm a newbie of the Visual Studio Code, and trying to define a custom color scheme simulating another editor I used for a long time. I hope to give light colors for editor's UI and dark colors for the contents area. Here is the repository:
https://github.com/piroor/vscode-theme-kokuban
I successfully set colors for most parts, but there are some problems. Here is a screenshot describing the current appearance. There are two unreadable colorings:
The top-left pane (options UI) , the middle-left pane (extension information), and the bottom pane (debug console) have dark background and dark foreground.
The header of a hint for an unused argument (right pane) is shown with light background and light foreground.
Sadly I couldn't find out which entries correspond to these parts from the list: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/theme-color Any hint to find entries for those parts? Or, is such coloring (dark colored contents and light colored widgets) impossible?
I'm able to highlight text but I'd like to use custom highlight colors. Even if I define custom colors, Word seems to use one of the colors in the default palette that it thinks is closest.
myRange.font.highlightColor = "#ffcc00"; // Should be orange. Comes out red
That color should come out orange but it comes out red.
Any ideas?
Word does not support custom highlight colors - only the traditionl, basic sixteen colors. This is a limitation of the Word application, not the Office JS APIs.
It would be possible to apply custom colors using Shading, however (as in borders and shading).
Here's a work-around to the problem of defining custom highlight colors which I discovered quite some time ago ..
If you paste in highlighted text copied from an application from outside of Word (i.e., highlighted text from an AOL email let's say), you can then:
Use the insertion bar to select and highlight an area of the text you just pasted in
Press the FORMAT PAINTER tool to copy the formatting of the area you've selected. The pointer changes to a PAINTBRUSH icon (with an insertion bar attached)
Move the PAINTBRUSH to the existing Word text that you want to highlight using the new color
Press and hold the mouse button (usually the left button) while selecting the specific text
Release the mouse button to apply the new highlighting and formatting
The applied highlighting will also include any other existing formatting; so you MAY have to change the font or adjust some other feature (i.e., turn on/off bold, italics, underline, etc.) But this is easily accomplished. The point is that you can now have ANY color highlighting that you prefer – this hack absolutely DOES work!
Here's, one last thing – when you save the document (by clicking the OFFICE BUTTON in the upper left corner), I would advise that you first select WORD OPTIONS, then SAVE and check the box next to "Embed fonts in the file" under "Preserve fidelity when sharing this document" (I always uncheck the other two boxes). This is to ensure that before you export or print the document, you may be sure that all the fonts and features have been saved within it.
And for the record, this technique is NOT shading.
The highlighting comes from actual HIGHLIGHTED TEXT copied from a document or application from OUTSIDE of Word. So it has nothing whatsoever to do with Word's shading feature. I've even copied highlighted text from non-dedicated word processing applications, and then pasted the text into Word – where it is then available to apply the copied highlighting to text within the existing Word document.
If you think about it – the fact that Word 2007 permits you to define any THEME color you want clearly shows that one should be able to define ANY desired custom HIGHLIGHTING color as well – besides just the 15 basic colors (and excluding the "no color"). And this work-around proves that this is so. The problem is that the Word application itself does not permit you to accomplish this directly.
I found some great info on here about modifying Workbench's color scheme, but now that it's dark, the black cursor and dark blue line highlight blend in to the background almost entirely. The quick fix, of course, is to lighten the editor background, but I thought I'd ask if anyone has any idea how to modify the editor's line highlight and cursor colors.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
The color can be changed but you have to change the CSS
On linux it's here
/usr/share/mysql-workbench/data/code_editor.xml
MySQL Workbench does not allow to customize colors on that level. The color schemes work only on Windows (where the OS provides already high contrast schemes). Windows is also handling any adjustment of cursor color, selection color and other standard colors (like window background). Further modifications are only possible for SQL syntax highlighting.
I like to use a darker background but I cant find the setting to changer the highlighting. Every time I use it its like I'm finding waldo and it defeats the purpose.
Example: http://i.stack.imgur.com/pA0c9.png
I assume you are using the ISE? The command window just inverts the colours so anything other than medium grey is easy to find.
Anyway this is a really unfortunate feature of Windows, the highlight text isn't controlled by the ISE but by Personalisation settings. Go into Control Panel, Personalisation, Window Colour, then "Advanced Appearance Settings..." and you'll get the old options to change window colours.
The "Selected Items" setting will change the colour of highlighted text EVERYWHERE IN WINDOWS. So if you decide to go down this route you're going to need to pick a colour you can easily find on both your ISE and the standard black-on-white theme. I recommend a slightly lighter blue.