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Phillip M. Feldman
possible to change editor font color?
Mar 9th, 2010, 8:07pm  
I'd like to be able to change the editor font color so that I have heavy black text instead of spidery gray text.  Can this be done?  I've tried adding the line

editor.font=Monospaced,bold,24

to preferences.txt,

but I still don't get bold text, and I have no idea of how to change the color.

Phillip
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PhiLho 
Re: possible to change editor font color?
Reply #1 - Mar 10th, 2010, 1:37am  
See Bug 1320 : Processing 1.0.7 losing some preferences settings and Bug 1322 : The theme.txt file is only searched in the install dir.
I don't know what version you have, but I still have 1.0.5 so I have to edit this theme.txt file to change the color settings.
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Phillip M. Feldman
Re: possible to change editor font color?
Reply #2 - Mar 11th, 2010, 2:12pm  
I've played with the settings in the file "theme.txt" (in C:\Program Files\processing-1.0.9\lib\theme), but this doesn't seem to have any effect.  If anyone can tell me how to make the text much darker, I'd be grateful.  Alternatively, if there is an easy way to enable an external editor, that would be just as good.  (I know that this is supposed to be possible, but have done many searches without finding anything).
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PhiLho 
Re: possible to change editor font color?
Reply #3 - Mar 12th, 2010, 4:26am  
Perhaps it no longer works in 1.0.9, but it work(ed) in 1.0.5. I wait for 1.0.10 (or 1.1 or whatever) to upgrade... Smiley
I used mostly an external editor to code Processing sketches, unless I do quick experiments or small fixes.
I found the most effective way is to create the sketch in Processing, open the .pde file in my editor and when I need to test, I just use the Open button in the toolbar: it allows to refresh the edited file without opening a new PDE window.
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PhiLho 
Re: possible to change editor font color?
Reply #4 - Mar 12th, 2010, 5:03am  
Well, I just saw 1.1 is out!
So I downloaded the Windows (Java-less) version and unzipped it and pointed my run shortcut to it.
I lost all my color settings (I have a theme.txt file in the Processing setting folder).
I tried to paste them in preferences.txt but still no custom colors.
So I made a copy of lib/theme.txt and replaced it with my own.
Lo! My colors are back.
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