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Build ID: M20071023-1652 Steps To Reproduce: Set your text editor background color to black, foreground color to white. Set java syntax hilighting for white (/bright) colors. Run programs - can't see text in several displays: - variables - expressions - inspector (bottom panel) More information: If you set your IDE to view java code as white text on black background, and use the syntax hilighting features, then the text is only visible if the background is set to be the same as that in the text editors preferences. This works with the 'Display' view (though the text selection isn't following the correct color), but doesn't work with viewing Variables, Expressions or the Inspector view, as the text follows the syntax hilighting rules, but not the background. This effectively makes any light-on-dark colorscheme unusable.
Where should this go? PW
Nigel: could you please post some screenshots?
Created attachment 86826 [details] variables window Variables window (top-right) showing selected variable. Text at bottom is correctly following the java hilighting rules, but the background color isn't, so it can't be read.
Created attachment 86832 [details] variables window Variables window (top-right) showing selected variable. Text at bottom is correctly following the java hilighting rules, but the background color isn't, so it can't be read.
Created attachment 86838 [details] variables window Variables window (top-right) showing selected variable. Text at bottom is correctly following the java hilighting rules, but the background color isn't, so it can't be read.
Created attachment 86843 [details] variables window Variables window (top-right) showing selected variable. Text at bottom is correctly following the java hilighting rules, but the background color isn't, so it can't be read.
I like using a dark blue background with mostly white text in syntax coloring with keywords being yellow, comments bright green, etc. When debugging and trying to look at the contents of variables, I have to highlight the text in the display pane just to see it, otherwise, it's white on white. It's a big pain! Please fix.
Looks like the situation is improved in Ganymede. In my environment (Linux/GTK) on Ganymede, both the variables and expressions view show black text on a white background. This does not follow my text editor preferences (white text on a black background), but at least it's readable.
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This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
