Yellow font in debugger view

[PouncingPanda]

Congratulations on a brilliant release!  SE 14.0.1.2 is amazing!  Python support fills me with luminous waves of happiness.

I'm debugging some code and my "Autos" window has a bright yellow font.  On a white background this is unreadable.  I don't know how to change it.  Also when I type into the "Watch" window the font is black, but if I expand something (e.g. a tuple) the subitems in the expansion also have the yellow font.  This is really annoying, and I searched for quite a while through the font colors options (Tools->Options->Appearance->Colors) and found nothing.  Please help.  Thanks so much.

Running SE 14.0.1.2 demo (will buy soon) on WinXP SP3.

[Rodney]

I believe that color is the "Modified Line" color (Tools>Options, Appearance>Colors). I'm not sure how it got set to something like yellow on white, but you could:

1. Try changing the Scheme to something else and then back, resetting all colors.
2. Try just fixing that one color element.

I personally favor #1.

--rodney

[dunkers]

Long standing horrible 'feature' I've previously whined about with no fix forthcoming.

The problem is that the debugger text uses the modified line background color as the text foreground. So you either have obtrusive modified line coloring or hard to see debugger text. It seems obvious to me that if the two should share a setting then the foreground colour for modified line (which isn't used) should be the text colour. And/or use the background modified line color for the debugger text background.

I'm sure there must be some obvious and logical reason why it's done the way it is, but no-one's owned up to it yet. Meantime, all I can say is "Grrrrrrr"

[Dennis]

A new configuration item will be added for this in the next patch release.

As an aside, let me note that, ironically, I had never heard anyone complain about this color when it was hard-coded to red, it was when someone suggested that it should be configurable and consistent with our other modification colors that we started hearing complaints.

[dunkers]

Thanks Dennis.

Red was OK for the debugger text because it was visible and I certainly assumed it was red because that's how it's always been (in other debuggers, for instance, and the file tabs). It was only when I thought the line modification colour was too outstanding to fill up my margins and changed that to yellow that the debugger colour became an issue. Had it been possible to change the mod colour without changing the debugger text then no-one would have said anything, probably. So kind of ironic, yes.

Hmmm... now you mention it I'm pretty sure the file tabs had the same problem: the text used the modifiaction background rather than foreground. Not sure what's happened there but my file tabs are back to the original red now and obviously been flying under my radar because of that