Android Studio automatically adjusted contrast now all of my buttons are light, text color changed to black, how to change it back?
ALL of my buttons were the default blue and they still show up blue in my xml/design window however when I run the app all the buttons are light grey (I think, I'm colorblind, could be teal), my text has turned to black. At one point AS asked me if I wanted to let it adjust the contrast. Now nothing I change seems to change any button color.
Thoughts?
I don't know what I have clicked while I was coding, but this orange box with dots appeared hiding my code:
How can I make my code visible again?
You clicked the arrow on the left, just click it again to collapse the code.
You activated the Code Folding feature. This allows you to hide a block of text temporarily so that you can concentrate on the surrounding lines. The ellipsis (three dots) in the orange box indicates that there are hidden lines at that point in the buffer.
One way to show all lines is with menu item Edit > Code Folding > Unfold All. You may also want to explore the other items in that submenu.
the buttons inside the greyed bottom stay at the bottom even when the form is resized.. is this something from the toolbox?
In Visual Studio 2012, I know that the color scheme for the Text Editor can be changed at TOOLS -> Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors.
However, what I can't find is this: When selecting a chunk of text with the mouse, and right clicking on that selection, the background color for the selection changes. Right now, that color matches the dark background of the Text Editor, which makes it look like nothing is selected.
How can I change the background color of selected text when the right-click context menu is open?
I think you are looking for the InactiveSelectedText option.
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I have been able to change the background color after installing the updates by changing
Tool / Options / Environment / Text Editor / Highlight Current Line (Active)
Is there a way to change the highlights border width or color?
I like having the highlight so I would prefer not to just disable it. But it would be nice to either eliminate the border, make it smaller or change the color.
You can make the border go away by going to
Tools > Options... > Environment > Fonts and Colors > Show settings for: Text Editor > Display items: Highlight Current Line (Active) / (Inactive)
In order to change border color you should change the setting "Item foreground" for both of them. You can choose any background color also, but there seems to be no way to change the width.
Seems to be this behavior was fixed since original answer was written. So answer needs update and here it is:
https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/3012415-remove-the-light-border-around-highlight-current
You can remove the border by matching the Background color of the
Highlight Current Line (Active) setting in Fonts and Colors to the
Foreground color. This is a simple customization.
Go to Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors
and look there for Highlight Current line, active and inactive. To remove border as described by VS team by link and cite above.
From MSDN Thread courtesy of Cathy Sullivan Visual Studio Program Manager
Go to Fonts and Colors in Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors. Make sure "Show Settings For" is set to "Text Editor" and find the "Highlight Current Line (Active)" item in the "Display Items" list. Match the foreground color to the background color for that item and you'll notice the lighter border around the Highlight Current Line "disappears."
Try these settings out...
Tools (menu) > Options
Environment (tab) > General
Set Color Theme to Dark.
Environment (tab) > Fonts and Colors
Display Items > 'Highlight Current Line (Active)' (list item)
Set 'Item Foreground' to 'Default'
Set 'Item Background' to 'Automatic'
The border around the current line should no longer feel oppressively thick '-)
I like to use a black background for code, so I changed the line highlight colour to very dark grey [via TOOLS > Options... > Environment > Fonts and Colors > Display Items: > Highlight Current Line (Active)] so that it's not as visible against the background. Helpfully, although the border is too thick, text is actually rendered over the top of the border, which is nice.
Definitely, though, a thinner line and the ability to change the colour of the whole line, not just the border, would be welcome.