Dark theme broken background color is used

[dotnetwise]

When using the dark theme, the background of the output window seems to be broken.
It uses the editor background color instead of the Output Window Plain Text Background.

See below.

[mike-ward]

See http://mike-ward.net/2014/12/11/vscoloroutput-for-visual-studio-2015/

[dotnetwise]

There is no real answer on the link you sent. This is a very annoying bug.

[mike-ward]

Prove me wrong. Clone the code and fix it.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 6:03 AM, dotnetwise notifications@github.com wrote:

There is no real answer on the link you sent. This is a bug.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
#4 (comment)
.

[evakili]

I have the same problem but I use this method as a workaround:
As @dotnetwise said in above screenshot, you can see that the back color of output window and text editor are different. So if you simply set back color for output window plain text same as back color of text editor plain text, the problem will be dissappeard.
Note that the back color for all VSColorOutput logs should be set to be Automatic not Default.
It seems that the root of this problem is in #5.

[xavier-rigau]

Hi Mike,

First off, thanks for creating this and making it available to everyone. It's been really helpful for me in spotting that one line out of several hundred in my log output.

I tried switching back and forth between Light and Dark themes and restarting, but no joy. What finally did work for me was similar to evakili's post:

Tools --> Options --> Environment --> Fonts and Colors

Show settings for:Output Window

Set Item background to Black (not Default or Automatic) - that caused VSColorOutput's output background to switch immediately. Could it be that selecting "Default" or "Automatic" doesn't generate the color change notification you're referring to?

Anyway, problem solved for me. Thanks again.

[dotnetwise]

Thanks for sharing this work around! It works amazingly well!

[amaechler]

Mike's workaround did it for me.

[NickNightingale]

Workaround good for me too in 2015RC. It was already working correctly in 2013.

[jklaus]

Any word on whether or not M$ will be resolving this issue?

[phil-scott-78]

this work around fixed it for me too. Seems to have fixed a similiar problem with NCrunch forgetting it was in dark mode too.

I actually regret not sending a Frown to MS with a screenshot. Per @davkean this is a good way to get things prioritized for later fixes in Visual Studio

[IwishIcanFLighT]

@xavier-rigau's workaround worked fine for me (VS2015). Thanks a bunch!

[oatsoda]

@mike-ward's fix by changing the themes worked for me. I was on the Dark theme and the "Default" background colour for the Output Window was showing as silvery-grey rather than the dark gray(black). Changed themes and a bit of VS restarting and the "Default" background colour for the Output Window returned to be the dark gray/black as you would expect.

[jakubsuchybio]

Tried everything you suggested guys, but nothing solved this...
I am using dark theme.
I tried to change Fonts and Colors -> Output window -> Plain Text -> Item Background to black and it changed the background elsewere in output window, but NOT Item Background, which is same as on picture above.
I tried to change Fonts and Colors -> Text Editor -> VSOutputColor -> Everything -> Item Background to black and it didn't do anything.

[mike-ward]

Did you close and open Visual Studio after making the changes. I have the same issue when I switch themes until I restart Visual Studio. As mentioned before, the notification that tells VSColorOutput that colors have changed is broken. My output looks like your's before restarting. Afterwards,

[jakubsuchybio]

Oh yeah. That works. Thanks!

[mike-ward]

Should be fixed in beta 1

[lackovic]

xavier-rigau solution fixed the problem for me, thanks a lot! In my case I simply went to Tools > Options > Environment > Fonts and Colors > Show settings for: Output Window and pressed the "Use Defaults" button.

[mike-ward]

For the record, the newest versions no longer touch the background color so theme switching should no longer be an issue.