Default color scheme doesn't go well with Eclipse dark theme.

[ravijoshi2]

Default color scheme doesn't go well with Eclipse dark theme. Any way we can change default color theme of Veloedit?

[ChristopherSchultz]

Yes, it's practically unreadable because Eclipse changes only the background color from white to very dark gray and doesn't update the other colors. So you have e.g. $foo in blue-on-dark-gray which just looks like a fuzzy mess unless you really strain your eyes.

Is there any way to customize the syntax-highlighting colors... or even disable them entirely? VeloEdit is still useful even without the syntax highlighting (though less so, of course).

[tjuerge]

Sure, the default color scheme is not usable with dark scheme. But is there any issue manually selecting different colors in veloedit's editor preferences?

[ChristopherSchultz]

That works great. I didn't know the colors were tweakable from the prefs UI. Thanks for the pointers.

[holle]

I initially had the same problem as the original poster of this ticket.
And yes, the shown solution works for me as well....

But for some weird reason the dialog shown in the screenshot above (Velocity -> Editor -> Syntax Highlighting ...) cannot be found using the quick search feature in preferences.

Edit: searching for "Editor" yields the preferences dialog but searching for "Syntax", "Highlighting" or "Coloring" does not yield the page, but pretty much all other editors pages are listed ...

Maybe you could fix that and prevent these type of questions?

Thanks in advance ;-)

[mikekonikoff]

Updating the editor preferences for syntax highlighting in veloedit does not have any effect when using MyEclipse 2021 DevStyle themes. Under eclipse dark theme, after applying the changes, the editor window has to be reopened for the changes to appear.