Pale yellow background highlight makes text unreadable when dark background scheme is used in IDE

[Rhett Anderson]

I'm using a light-on-dark color scheme in the IDE. When I click on an
identifier, all instances of it are given a pale yellow background. I
get white text on pale yellow that I can't read.

I've been all through the global and language-specific colors I can
change, but I cannot locate this pale yellow one. Can anyone help?

This must have been asked before, since it's so incredibly annoying, but
I was not able to find a reply. Is there a regular bulletin board or a
GoogleGroup where I could ask questions? This mailing list seems a bit
awkward.

This happens to me in both the Java and PHP versions of the IDE. I'm
using the color scheme "Norway Today."

[Rhett Anderson]

Every time I start the PHP version of the IDE, my code is displayed with
a tab size of 8, even though the options show tabs set for 2. I have to
bump up and down the tab size and switch the file I'm viewing to see my
tab setting.

[Russell Bateman]

I thought I couldn't impress my will for tab sizes simple because I'm just a nube. NetBeans appears even more forgetful on this point than Eclipse was where I seemed to have to import my code style including tab settings afresh for every new project.

At least Eclipse had that capability. NetBeans, it seems, relies on transporting what's under $HOME/.netbeans (how much of it? Is it all portable between host types Windows, Linux/Unix and Macintosh?).

This is one area where some improvement or maybe just explanation would go a long way to making life easier for a simple, but very in-our-face phenomenon. Maybe someone else will see it our way?



Rhett Anderson wrote:

Every time I start the PHP version of the IDE, my code is displayed with a tab size of 8, even though the options show tabs set for 2. I have to bump up and down the tab size and switch the file I'm viewing to see my tab setting.

[Rhett Anderson]

I'm sure it's just a bug, as this does not happen to me in the Java
version of the IDE, only in the PHP Early release.

I might have to drop the PHP version until it becomes more stable. With
8 or so files open, you can sit, doing nothing, and watch it eat up
memory. Eventually, it pigs out and becomes unusable. Nice to see what's
coming for PHP programmers, but it's not quite ready to be used for
production.

It's close, though.

Russell Bateman wrote:

> I thought I couldn't impress my will for tab sizes simple because I'm
> just a nube. NetBeans appears even more forgetful on this point than
> Eclipse was where I seemed to have to import my code style including
> tab settings afresh for every new project.
>
> At least Eclipse had that capability. NetBeans, it seems, relies on
> transporting what's under $HOME/.netbeans (how much of it? Is it all
> portable between host types Windows, Linux/Unix and Macintosh?).
>
> This is one area where some improvement or maybe just explanation
> would go a long way to making life easier for a simple, but very
> in-our-face phenomenon. Maybe someone else will see it our way?
>
>
>
> Rhett Anderson wrote:
>> Every time I start the PHP version of the IDE, my code is displayed
>> with a tab size of 8, even though the options show tabs set for 2. I
>> have to bump up and down the tab size and switch the file I'm viewing
>> to see my tab setting.

[Steve Revilak]

> From: Rhett Anderson
> Subject: [nbusers] Pale yellow background highlight makes text unreadable when
>      dark background scheme is used in IDE

> I'm using a light-on-dark color scheme in the IDE. When I click on an
> identifier, all instances of it are given a pale yellow background. I get
> white text on pale yellow that I can't read.
>
> I've been all through the global and language-specific colors I can change,
> but I cannot locate this pale yellow one. Can anyone help?

I can speak to java, but not PHP.

Go into Preferences > Fonts and Colors > Syntax.  Choose Language:
Java, and Category: Mark Occurrences.  You should be able to set the
highlight color there.

You can also use Preferences > Java Code > Mark Occurrences to turn
off the highlighting behavior.

Steve

[Rhett Anderson]

Steve Revilak wrote:

>> From: Rhett Anderson Subject: [nbusers] Pale yellow background
>> highlight makes text unreadable when
>>      dark background scheme is used in IDE
>
>> I'm using a light-on-dark color scheme in the IDE. When I click on an
>> identifier, all instances of it are given a pale yellow background. I
>> get white text on pale yellow that I can't read.
>>
>> I've been all through the global and language-specific colors I can
>> change, but I cannot locate this pale yellow one. Can anyone help?
>
> I can speak to java, but not PHP.
>
> Go into Preferences > Fonts and Colors > Syntax.  Choose Language:
> Java, and Category: Mark Occurrences.  You should be able to set the
> highlight color there.
>
> You can also use Preferences > Java Code > Mark Occurrences to turn
> off the highlighting behavior.
>
> Steve
>

Thanks so much! Not sure how I missed that. That should be changed in
the light-on-dark schemes that ship with NetBeans, I think.

[Thomas Wolf-4]

Rhett,
Thanks for mentioning light-on-black schemes - I never even noticed that these profiles were added.  NB used to have just the "City Lights" one.
Is there an easy way to make all of netbeans "light on black"?  I remember trying NB with Substance L&F a year or two ago.  Although it had a number of light-on-dark skins, the IDE became noticably more sluggish when using them :-(  Has this changed? (because my hardware config hasn't :-)

thnx,
tom


Rhett Anderson wrote:

Steve Revilak wrote:

From: Rhett Anderson Subject: [nbusers] Pale yellow background highlight makes text unreadable when
     dark background scheme is used in IDE

I'm using a light-on-dark color scheme in the IDE. When I click on an identifier, all instances of it are given a pale yellow background. I get white text on pale yellow that I can't read.

I've been all through the global and language-specific colors I can change, but I cannot locate this pale yellow one. Can anyone help?

I can speak to java, but not PHP.

Go into Preferences > Fonts and Colors > Syntax.  Choose Language:
Java, and Category: Mark Occurrences.  You should be able to set the
highlight color there.

You can also use Preferences > Java Code > Mark Occurrences to turn
off the highlighting behavior.

Steve

Thanks so much! Not sure how I missed that. That should be changed in the light-on-dark schemes that ship with NetBeans, I think.

[Rhett Anderson]

City Lights was too harsh on my eyes. Norway Today is very nice (with
some tweaking).

The text editor window is all that changes. All UI windows and the
output window, etc. stay the same. I usually run with all the windows
but the text windows closed until I need them, so for me the UI colors
don't matter.

I did not stay in dark-on-light long enough to notice if it was faster
than light-on-dark (my eyes can't tolerate white backgrounds for
programming). Since all the colors seem mutable, I doubt there's much
difference in speed.

  --R

Thomas Wolf wrote:

> Rhett,
> Thanks for mentioning light-on-black schemes - I never even noticed
> that these profiles were added.  NB used to have just the "City
> Lights" one.
> Is there an easy way to make all of netbeans "light on black"?  I
> remember trying NB with Substance L&F a year or two ago.  Although it
> had a number of light-on-dark skins, the IDE became noticably more
> sluggish when using them :-(  Has this changed? (because my hardware
> config hasn't :-)
>
> thnx,
> tom
>
>
> Rhett Anderson wrote:
>> Steve Revilak wrote:
>>>> From: Rhett Anderson Subject: [nbusers] Pale yellow background
>>>> highlight makes text unreadable when
>>>>      dark background scheme is used in IDE
>>>
>>>> I'm using a light-on-dark color scheme in the IDE. When I click on
>>>> an identifier, all instances of it are given a pale yellow
>>>> background. I get white text on pale yellow that I can't read.
>>>>
>>>> I've been all through the global and language-specific colors I can
>>>> change, but I cannot locate this pale yellow one. Can anyone help?
>>>
>>> I can speak to java, but not PHP.
>>>
>>> Go into Preferences > Fonts and Colors > Syntax.  Choose Language:
>>> Java, and Category: Mark Occurrences.  You should be able to set the
>>> highlight color there.
>>>
>>> You can also use Preferences > Java Code > Mark Occurrences to turn
>>> off the highlighting behavior.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>> Thanks so much! Not sure how I missed that. That should be changed in
>> the light-on-dark schemes that ship with NetBeans, I think.
>>

[Thomas Wolf-4]

Rhett,
When I talked about the speed of things, I was talking about the Substance L&F skins.  I don't notice any speed differences when simply changing the profile.  Sorry if I wasn't being clear.

Tom

Rhett Anderson wrote:

City Lights was too harsh on my eyes. Norway Today is very nice (with some tweaking).

The text editor window is all that changes. All UI windows and the output window, etc. stay the same. I usually run with all the windows but the text windows closed until I need them, so for me the UI colors don't matter.

I did not stay in dark-on-light long enough to notice if it was faster than light-on-dark (my eyes can't tolerate white backgrounds for programming). Since all the colors seem mutable, I doubt there's much difference in speed.

 --R

Thomas Wolf wrote:

Rhett,
Thanks for mentioning light-on-black schemes - I never even noticed that these profiles were added.  NB used to have just the "City Lights" one.
Is there an easy way to make all of netbeans "light on black"?  I remember trying NB with Substance L&F a year or two ago.  Although it had a number of light-on-dark skins, the IDE became noticably more sluggish when using them :-(  Has this changed? (because my hardware config hasn't :-)

thnx,
tom


Rhett Anderson wrote:

Steve Revilak wrote:

From: Rhett Anderson Subject: [nbusers] Pale yellow background highlight makes text unreadable when
     dark background scheme is used in IDE

I'm using a light-on-dark color scheme in the IDE. When I click on an identifier, all instances of it are given a pale yellow background. I get white text on pale yellow that I can't read.

I've been all through the global and language-specific colors I can change, but I cannot locate this pale yellow one. Can anyone help?

I can speak to java, but not PHP.

Go into Preferences > Fonts and Colors > Syntax.  Choose Language:
Java, and Category: Mark Occurrences.  You should be able to set the
highlight color there.

You can also use Preferences > Java Code > Mark Occurrences to turn
off the highlighting behavior.

Steve

Thanks so much! Not sure how I missed that. That should be changed in the light-on-dark schemes that ship with NetBeans, I think.

[Rhett Anderson]

Ah, my brain skipped "Substance L&F" because I don't know what that is. :-)

  --R

Thomas Wolf wrote:

> Rhett,
> When I talked about the speed of things, I was talking about the
> Substance L&F skins.  I don't notice any speed differences when simply
> changing the profile.  Sorry if I wasn't being clear.
>
> Tom
>
> Rhett Anderson wrote:
>> City Lights was too harsh on my eyes. Norway Today is very nice (with
>> some tweaking).
>>
>> The text editor window is all that changes. All UI windows and the
>> output window, etc. stay the same. I usually run with all the windows
>> but the text windows closed until I need them, so for me the UI
>> colors don't matter.
>>
>> I did not stay in dark-on-light long enough to notice if it was
>> faster than light-on-dark (my eyes can't tolerate white backgrounds
>> for programming). Since all the colors seem mutable, I doubt there's
>> much difference in speed.
>>
>>  --R
>>
>> Thomas Wolf wrote:
>>> Rhett,
>>> Thanks for mentioning light-on-black schemes - I never even noticed
>>> that these profiles were added.  NB used to have just the "City
>>> Lights" one.
>>> Is there an easy way to make all of netbeans "light on black"?  I
>>> remember trying NB with Substance L&F a year or two ago.  Although
>>> it had a number of light-on-dark skins, the IDE became noticably
>>> more sluggish when using them :-(  Has this changed? (because my
>>> hardware config hasn't :-)
>>>
>>> thnx,
>>> tom
>>>
>>>
>>> Rhett Anderson wrote:
>>>> Steve Revilak wrote:
>>>>>> From: Rhett Anderson Subject: [nbusers] Pale yellow background
>>>>>> highlight makes text unreadable when
>>>>>>      dark background scheme is used in IDE
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm using a light-on-dark color scheme in the IDE. When I click
>>>>>> on an identifier, all instances of it are given a pale yellow
>>>>>> background. I get white text on pale yellow that I can't read.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been all through the global and language-specific colors I
>>>>>> can change, but I cannot locate this pale yellow one. Can anyone
>>>>>> help?
>>>>>
>>>>> I can speak to java, but not PHP.
>>>>>
>>>>> Go into Preferences > Fonts and Colors > Syntax.  Choose Language:
>>>>> Java, and Category: Mark Occurrences.  You should be able to set the
>>>>> highlight color there.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can also use Preferences > Java Code > Mark Occurrences to turn
>>>>> off the highlighting behavior.
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks so much! Not sure how I missed that. That should be changed
>>>> in the light-on-dark schemes that ship with NetBeans, I think.
>>>>
>>