[Visual Studio Extensions] Default syntax highlight colors

[dfkeenan]

Hi,

Could you please improve the default syntax highlight colors for the various VS themes. The shaders and YAML files currently are a bit hard on the eyes when using the dark theme.

Cheers,
dfkeenan

[gitfool]

I would say they're nearly unreadable when using the dark theme. I mapped colours to their C# equivalent where possible, which would be a nicer default.

[xen2]

Fixed in newly released beta02.

[gitfool]

After installing beta02 I reset to Use Defaults for the Environment Fonts and Colors settings for Text Editor. Most the colors are okay except:

• Paradox Shader Language - Identifier
• Paradox Shader Language - Intrinsic
• Paradox Shader Language - Keyword
• Paradox Shader Language - Number

Intrinsic is actually readable but slightly too dark. The others are still way too dark and / or the contrast is wrong for the dark theme. I suppose it could be my monitor settings, but it might be worth double checking the color settings.

[dfkeenan]

Yeah still looks pretty bad to me :(

[xen2]

Does it match what you see?
I just took same colors I had on my C# code (I have resharper installed, maybe it has different colors than stock).

[gitfool]

No. It looks like this:

[xen2]

If colors were already set by previous plugin, it won't touch them (because it doesn't know if it wasn't manually changed by user).
What triggers a change is:

• First run will automatically create proper colors
• Going back and forth to light and dark theme

Could you try setting light and then dark theme again?

[gitfool]

Bingo!

[xen2]

Ok good! :)

[dfkeenan]

Yep that fixed it. Thanks for the quick response @xen2

[discosultan]

What's weird is that whenever I press Use Defaults in the Fonts and Colors dialog, the syntax highlight colors for .xksl files will be reverted back to this: