I am having difficulty getting the Content assist colors right. With auto-completion, the first suggestion is always light color on light color. Here is what it looked like originally (Dracula Theme):
Changing the values of Content Assist Background/Foreground colors did not have any affect on the top suggestion. Here is a screenshot from after swapping the Content Assist Foreground and Background colors (Darkest Dark theme):
I have tried swapping every other practical color setting in Window->Preferences->General->Appearance->Colors and Fonts with no luck. The color scheme in the first image above is the popular Dracula theme that I manually set up setting by setting. Thinking I screwed something up in there, I scrapped all that work and switched to the Eclipse DevStyle theme Darkest Dark. Here, I was met with the same issue. After this, I switched everything to default settings where the color scheme is black font on white background. Everything is readable. Switching back to the Darkest Dark, the issue remains.
I have found similar questions regarding this, but their solutions are mostly for Linux (GTK specifically). This machine I am using is on Windows 7. I also have a laptop that runs DBeaver on Arch Linux and does not suffer from this problem. It seems this issue may be system dependent. I found one answer that suggested changing the message box settings for Windows may fix this, but my message box settings are currently black text on white background. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Most of the SWT widgets relay on the OS level theme. For example, it's known that using the Windows Classic theme at the OS level can cause oddities like this one. So just switching to a different theme can fix this issue.
maybe you have found the solution, just in case anyone is still searching...
we can change the color of "content assist", you can find in "Colors and fonts".
click here to see the setting
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So I downloaded the Eclipse Dark Theme and got the syntax highlighting worked out, but I am having issues when using content assist feature. The blue text on the dark background makes the text very hard to change, and I have tried digging around looking for settings to change this but I could not find any. Can someone give me some advice here?
I was looking at this dark theme post and applied Moonrise theme on Eclipse Juno. I love everything it lays out except for the expandable arrow color. It's barely visible when my mouse isn't hovered. Does anyone know if this is possible to change?
As Spyros has mentioned, the author noted that the arrows color is impossible to change which is unfortunate.
Regardless, if you don't mind working under old graphic properties (yay!), the system arrow is replaced with a white box plus sign which makes everything visible. The drawback is, of course, the Windows 7 theme is gone. Found this by accident when trying to solve the performance issue: Look at Pyree's solution
I am afraid that is not possible due to the limitation of the css engine used to theme eclipse, according to the theme's author. (github)
In my Eclipse installation, the selected entry in the content assist menu is almost unreadable because the colour is white on white-greyish. See image below.
I can change the background and text colour of the non-selected entries in the list from eclipse preferences, but the selected entry is always the same colour and is always unreadable. I use the Eclipse Color Theme RecognEyes, but that should only affect the editor as far as I understand.
How do I make the text of the selected entry in the context assist menu readable?
Update
After reading m1shk4's answer it does indeed seem that Eclipse takes it's colours from the current gnome theme. However it does this in a kind of weird way.
The background colour of the content assist "window" is the input boxes background colour, and the text colour is the input boxes text colour. This all seems logical.
However the background colour of the selected entry is the windows background colour, but the text of the selected entry is not the background text colour.
See image below for an illustration.
Does anybody know how to fix or workaround this issue?
Working workaround
It seems this issue is rather specific with the default gnome theme in Ubuntu. Switching to another gnome theme solves the issue for me.
Not sure if it's still in time but this might help all of you who are having the same problem, as I had:
Create a file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and add this content to the file:
style "eclipse_fix"
{
base[ACTIVE] = shade(0.7, "#4283d3")
}
class "GtkTreeView" style "eclipse_fix"
Then just set Unity a new theme (in Configuration > appearance) and set again to the previous theme (Ambiance for instance). That will read the new file created above and the new color will take effect in eclipse.
I'm on Eclipse Neon and using Eclipse Color Themes.
I've solved this issue by:
Window-> Preferences-> General-> Appearance:
->Uncheck "Use mixed fonts and colors for labels."
Windows > Preference > General > Appearance > Color and Fonts
Basic > Content Assist background color, Content Assist foreground color:
and voilà!
Update
Interface is in Russian, but I think it's clear that colors, you're looking for, correspond to Selected Items entry. On my screenshot its light-blue for background and black for foreground.
If you are on Ubuntu / Unity, go ahead and install and start gnome-color-chooser.
Global Colors -> Default Configuration, Entry Fields -> selected and change fg and bg colors according to your needs.
I have the same issue on Windows 7. I found that text color(unselected text) of the content assist box can be changed under:
Desktop->Personalize->Window Color->Advanced Appearance Settings->Item->MessageBox
The only problem is one cannot set the background color for the MessageBox. -> any help from someone else?
At least this way you can read something...
NOTE: Be warned that a lot of other applications may depend on the messageBox color!
I was able to fix this in Ubuntu 12.04 by editing a file in the theme (I use Radiance):
sudo vi /usr/share/themes/Radiance/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
At the top is a key "gtk-color-scheme" with a bunch of color variables that are used later in the file. I make these changes: tooltip_fg_color:#000000 selected_fg_color:#000000 tooltip_bg_color:#f5f5b5
After making the changes, change your theme to something else then back, and most everything looks better! I did have to restart eclipse to get the fonts in the borders of the window to update.
Note that unfortunately these changes get overwritten sometimes during updates. There may be a way to use ~/.gtkrc-2.0 to do the same thing, I just don't know anything about that file.
Recently after scorching my retinas from the garish white background in Eclipse, I found some of the excellent posts about how to change the colors so it uses sane (i.e. dark background) colors in the editor. However, one problem present in all solutions is that background of the column with the expanders for code folding is always white. Is there a way to change the background of that column?
I'm not the only person that has this problem, as shown in the screenshots for the following questions:
Dark Color Scheme for Eclipse
Color Themes for Eclipse (application of color schemes results in this issue on a Mac, no idea about PC)
I know that the problem is not language specific as it happens in Java, Python, HTML, and everything else. Any hints on where in the pages of preferences this setting is?
This is related to Eclipse Bug 62712 which is fixed in build 20090329-2000 almost a year ago. In my Galileo of build 20090920-1017 it just works when I change the background color through General > Editors > Text Editors. Here's a screen (don't pay attention to the ugly color combo, my bg defaults to white and I just picked random yellow to demonstrate that the ruler background get changed as well):
In other words, just upgrade your Eclipse to include this bugfix. Did you check Help > Check for Updates?
I've found that setting a dark color theme in Eclipse makes the function tooltips unreadable.
This is probably easiest to describe with a picture:
alt text http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/9503/blahi.gif
Any ideas how to fix this?
The best solution i've found is to leave eclipse in normal bright mode, and use an OS level screen inverter.
On OSX you can do command-shift-8 (i think that's the key combo), inverts the whole screen
on linux with compiz, it's even better, you can do windows-n to darken windows selectively. (or windows-m to do the whole screen)
on windows, the only decent solution i've found is powerstrip, but it's only free for one year.. then it's like $30 or something..
then you can invert the screen, adjust the syntax-level colours to your liking, and you're off to the races, with cool shades on.
If you are running Eclipse in Ubuntu or other environment where it uses GTK+ themes, you can follow this guide to edit the tooltip and autocomplete colours from outside Eclipse. Not the ideal solution, but it does the trick.