I'm currently developing a vscode extension that highlights snippets of text in specific colors. In order to do that I am creating a TextEditorDecorationType with the color and use setDecoration (TextEditor) on the active text editor.
Now I would like to compare two different colors on the same snippet with each other. Therefore I want to have the editor split in half showing the text document twice, on the left side with the old decoration and on the right side with the new decoration, similar to the git source control:
I figured if it is possible in the source control it should be possible anywhere.
Currently I open a second text editor with the same TextDocument and add the new TextEditorDecorationType to it, yet instead I would like to do it as shown above.
I cannot figure out how to split the editor like that displaying the same content twice.
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How do I change what is shown in the space normally occupied by the editor when there are no open tabs? I mean the space with the gray-er blue and the VSCode icon, in the attached screenshot
It should appear somewhere in the Theme reference but I'm failing to find it.
Edit: I was expecting a var like editor.emptyStateBackground, being editor and background the main keywords, but there is nothing in the reference that allows to update this using any of those keywords.
When I compare two versions of a source file (for example, from egit) in the Eclipse IDE, the Compare View is appeared. It has two panes containing two versions of a text and I can use keyboard to move cursor through the text on one of this panes (or even edit the text in it). Additionally, I can use special shortcuts to go to the next/previous difference and/or apply current change from/to the opposite pane. But, I didn't find a way to move the input focus to other pane.
Actually, I would like be able to do this in one case. Let's say, I compare two revisions of a source and I need to apply some changes while others are unneeded. To achieve this, I walk through changes using the Ctrl + , or . shortcuts and apply needed changes using, for example, the Ctrl + Shift + ,. It looks like all is OK, but if I reach a change which has no any text in the current pane, the applying shortcut does not work. For example, the cursor is on the left pane. I went to the next difference and this difference is concluded in that the text was, for example, added in this line. So, the Compare View will show this added text on the right pane, will highlight it with the special rectangle while this rectangle on the left pane will have zero height and the cursor will be placed under this zero-sized rectangle. I.e., outside of it. So, I think, exactly this thing causes that the current change applying does not work. When I click on the opposite pane, inside of this change and then use the change applying shortcut, it works fine. So, I would like to switch to other plane via shortcut, not using mouse.
After working in a multiple column layout it is nice to be able to focus on one file momentarily using the entire application space. Then, returning to a column view.
In Slick-Edit this is Window / Zoom Toggle.
In VSCode, moving between multiple columns to 1, and then back to multiple loses editor groupings.
My approach for this scenario is using CMD+KO to Open Active File in New Window. If you close the window the file will still be present in your editor group.
There are some hiccups: I prefer a maximized window over full screen mode, but that will open a new, non-maximized window. In full screen you can prevent that, but will have to use CMD+W twice to get back to original view.
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.
Is there a shortcut for color chooser in NetBeans?
I found this same query on NetBeans website, it was said that this was possible but I can't find an actual answer how to do it.
I mean this: when I am in a CSS file and I am editing a property that involves a color, the color chooser pops up automatically. I would like to have the color chooser pop up on demand when I am editing any file (e.g. a PHP file). It would be very helpful.
I already looked in Options -> Keymap and there seems to be no shortcut containing the word "color".
Thanks.
In the editor, click the text representing the color (you don't even have to highlight the whole thing), then hit Ctrl+Spacebar.
While it's not ideal in Netbeans 8.0.2 you can do the following:
open any CSS file that contains a rule with a property that takes colour as value and place the cursor inside the declaration block of that rule,
in the top menu click on Window -> Web -> CSS Styles,
click on the dropdown with colour values and scroll right to the top,
click on Choose Color and a colour chooser will appear.
You can now close the CSS file (if you like) and open any type of file - the CSS Styles window will stay and you can repeat the above procedure starting from step 3.
P.S. Netbeans has a bug tracker that is not just for reporting bugs:
Issues = Bugs, Feature Requests, and Enhancements