Ok, I am using the Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor extension and I have modified the dark theme a little bit so that it suits my needs.
However I am experiencing an issue with the background color when I am using the Find tool. The issue is that I am setting an exact color for the background of the highlighted string, but it seems that there is some default transparency applied which is not editable even when using the editor mentioned above (VS gives you the option to edit the colors while the custom editor gives you the option to change the opacity as well).
Since I am using the dark theme whichever color I choose it looks like dark grey with a little bit of red/blue/yellow/whatever. I need to set it to something vibrant and not to dark grey with a drop of white for example - I want to easily see what is highlighted when I search.
How do I set it to something vibrant and not to dark grey with a drop of white for example - I want to easily see what is highlighted when I search?
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I'm facing a weird issue. Some of the scrollbars in my Android Studio have a different color than the others and that makes it impossible to use them without guesswork. I'm using the color-scheme Rider Melon Dark with custom colors for the logcat. How do I fix this? I see no options in the Color Scheme section for this.
Examples below:
I use Android Studio with Material Theme, as it makes it look A LOT better. The only problem is that when I initialize a variable, it shows up as dark grey, which is pretty unreadable because I use the dark theme. Is there an option that I can change only that dark grey to some other color, without making any changes to the color of other pieces of code?
Here's a screenshot:
File > Settings > Editor > Color Scheme > The language for which you want to change the color
Goal: I'm using a VS extension called "ClaudiaIDE" that enables you to set an image as a background to Visual Studio 2019. I set the background to a wood grain wallpaper (it looks amazing). It makes the code editor background and main window background transparent so you can see the image, but not anything else. I then started using Color Theme Editor to add transparency to other sections of the VS IDE so it's mostly showing the background image. I want the right side windows (like solution explorer) to be transparent as well.
Two stackoverflow answers say the color value is stored under "treeview". I changed the "treeview" background using the wizard but it made no difference (despite other SO comments saying it worked). Likely due to the old answers being for VS 2017 or earlier.
I then changed the "treeview" color manually in the CustomTheme.vstheme file and I successfully made the grey color transparent, but now there is an absolute black blackground, which was perhaps there to give a shadow effect. The code I edited is below (The opacity is intentional):
<Category Name="TreeView" GUID="{92ecf08e-8b13-4cf4-99e9-ae2692382185}">
<Color Name="Background">
<Background Type="CT_RAW" Source="00252526" />
<Foreground Type="CT_RAW" Source="FFF1F1F1" />
</Color>
I searched for every reference of "#FF000000" and for testing made them all fully transparent: "#00000000". This made no difference, solution explorer retained its "#FF000000" (by observation only, I don't know where the code is). I know the hex is right because I copied a screenshot into paint.net and grabbed the color.
I then changed my Microsoft Windows settings so that it didn't use the dark background, in case it was applying that to the VS windows. No change.
If anyone has any ideas on how to access the black underlying background for windows like "solution explorer" i would greatly appreciate it. It must be getting that value from somewhere.
Install this:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioPlatformTeam.VisualStudio2019ColorThemeEditor
Top menu:
Tool=>Customize Colors => choose theme
Show All Elements button (same row with save icon)
Search for (there is search box):
Environment → ToolWindowFloatingFrameInactive
Environment → ToolWindowFloatingFrame
Tool Window → Tab → Background
TreeView → Background
How would you do to combine the dark theme for the code editor with the blue theme for the rest of the Visual Studio UI, is there a way to pick independent configurations for each one?
Blue default theme with dark editor
Using Visual Studio 2012, update 2 introduced the old Blue theme from VS2010 also available in VS2013 Preview
You can use Color Theme Editor to do this. Take one of the two themes as base for your edits and change it in the way you need to get a new theme. I do it for my self with other themes - no problems at all.
Yes, using the Color Theme Editor is the right answer. And you don't need to edit the color one by one. You can create a copy of the black theme, type "text editor" in the upper right search field, and then select all the filtered items in the main window, copy them, and paste to a copy of the blue theme with "text editor" filter in place. I did this in 1 minute!
This Channel 9 video explains how to do this, you can just watch the first 7 minutes.
I change the Selected Text color which only allows you to change the background color but when I select some text, I notice the color is definitely not uniform all across. The selected text's background color looks different for a keyword vs an identifier.
Here is how it looks:
Is there a way to fix this?
It seems that Visual Studio 2012 doesn't like non-default fonts. Probably a bug in VS2012. Press the use Default fonts to solve the problem, so far that's the only solution I know.