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Foreground color not applying [message #1031498]

Mon, 01 April 2013 21:17

Tyler Terrell

Messages: 1
Registered: April 2013

Junior Member

So I've been doing google searches for half an hour now, most of which end up in the Eclipse help or on stackoverflow, on how to change Eclipse from a black on white editor to a white on black editor. I didn't need to search at all to find the Window Preferences section, but when I apply changes (under Text Editors) to the foreground color, it doesn't ever change from black. I've read that there is a plugin to apply themes to the program, but why is that necessary when the option is right there but not working? It seems this problem has existed for a while because I did find many articles on it, but they all direct me right back to where I was originally (foreground color). I can change the background color to black and hit apply and it works just fine, but I can't seem to change the foreground color no matter how much I try. What exactly am I doing wrong?

(To clarify again, I'm in Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors.)

Is it just impossible to set the foreground color for the editors in Eclispe? :/

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Re: Foreground color not applying [message #1032113 is a reply to message #1031498]

Tue, 02 April 2013 15:30

Stephan Herrmann

Messages: 1853
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

As you may have noticed text in editors can have many colors so there may be some interaction with the option from General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts.

In Eclipse 4.x times I'm sure the experts will tell you to use CSS, but that's not yet available via the UI.

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