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VS6 - what color scheme do you use?

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  • D Don Miguel

    I just re-installed VS6 - after many years - for some MFC projects. I remember that few years ago I used for IDE a color scheme having bacground color black, and text yellow. It was very comfortable for my eyes. But now I can't remember exactly how the colors were set. I just can't found again the proper combination, to have that nice color sintaxing, and so on. So, anybody using now VC++ 6, can help me?

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    Lost User
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    Are you talking about the Tools > Options > Format option. :confused: You can customize the colors of VC6 IDE from there. :-D

    Adios . ! . ::..:.:..:: KiRtAN GoR ::..:.:..::

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      Are you talking about the Tools > Options > Format option. :confused: You can customize the colors of VC6 IDE from there. :-D

      Adios . ! . ::..:.:..:: KiRtAN GoR ::..:.:..::

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      Don Miguel
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      Yes, I know... but I can't remember the good combination scheme... black for background color... and the rest of colors? Text color, variable color, and so on... I tryed some combinations and I can't find a good one. So, waht are you using? I just can't remember.... :sigh:

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      • D Don Miguel

        Yes, I know... but I can't remember the good combination scheme... black for background color... and the rest of colors? Text color, variable color, and so on... I tryed some combinations and I can't find a good one. So, waht are you using? I just can't remember.... :sigh:

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        Lost User
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        Don Miguel wrote:

        So, what are you using?

        Just used it some time back. And that also for a short time. And I used the default schemes. :-O Right now I am riding the .NET wave with ASP.NET :cool:

        Adios . ! . ::..:.:..:: KiRtAN GoR ::..:.:..::

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        • D Don Miguel

          I just re-installed VS6 - after many years - for some MFC projects. I remember that few years ago I used for IDE a color scheme having bacground color black, and text yellow. It was very comfortable for my eyes. But now I can't remember exactly how the colors were set. I just can't found again the proper combination, to have that nice color sintaxing, and so on. So, anybody using now VC++ 6, can help me?

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          Ray Kinsella
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          My thoughts on the issue

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          • D Don Miguel

            I just re-installed VS6 - after many years - for some MFC projects. I remember that few years ago I used for IDE a color scheme having bacground color black, and text yellow. It was very comfortable for my eyes. But now I can't remember exactly how the colors were set. I just can't found again the proper combination, to have that nice color sintaxing, and so on. So, anybody using now VC++ 6, can help me?

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            Rohde
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            I like black or blue text on white background. Surveys also suggest it's superior: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000340.html[^]. But mileage may vary as Ray's post above shows.

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            • D Don Miguel

              I just re-installed VS6 - after many years - for some MFC projects. I remember that few years ago I used for IDE a color scheme having bacground color black, and text yellow. It was very comfortable for my eyes. But now I can't remember exactly how the colors were set. I just can't found again the proper combination, to have that nice color sintaxing, and so on. So, anybody using now VC++ 6, can help me?

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              Cedric Moonen
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              Don Miguel wrote:

              color scheme having bacground color black, and text yellow. It was very comfortable for my eyes.

              :wtf: Wow... Whenever I read text on a black background, after 10 seconds, I feel my eyes are tired and it's difficult to continue reading. Maybe it's just a question of habbit.


              Cédric Moonen Software developer
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              • C Cedric Moonen

                Don Miguel wrote:

                color scheme having bacground color black, and text yellow. It was very comfortable for my eyes.

                :wtf: Wow... Whenever I read text on a black background, after 10 seconds, I feel my eyes are tired and it's difficult to continue reading. Maybe it's just a question of habbit.


                Cédric Moonen Software developer
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                Don Miguel
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                Dark text on a white background is the best for a presentation - so I also prefer it for reading, but when you're doing serious, long-houred coding, the white will kill your eyesight. That's why I choosed black background. And was ok for my eyes.

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                • D Don Miguel

                  I just re-installed VS6 - after many years - for some MFC projects. I remember that few years ago I used for IDE a color scheme having bacground color black, and text yellow. It was very comfortable for my eyes. But now I can't remember exactly how the colors were set. I just can't found again the proper combination, to have that nice color sintaxing, and so on. So, anybody using now VC++ 6, can help me?

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                  Kevin McFarlane
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                  I stick with the default.

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                  • D Don Miguel

                    I just re-installed VS6 - after many years - for some MFC projects. I remember that few years ago I used for IDE a color scheme having bacground color black, and text yellow. It was very comfortable for my eyes. But now I can't remember exactly how the colors were set. I just can't found again the proper combination, to have that nice color sintaxing, and so on. So, anybody using now VC++ 6, can help me?

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                    Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                    The only time I use it these days is for testing (we use VS2003 and VS2005 for mainstream stuff now - the VS6 compiler and libraries no longer offer the functionality we need). When I do use it it's with the default coliour scheme, but with Visual Assist X enabled and the editor font set to Consolas (it's a free download for VS2005, but it works in VS6 well enough - though you need a VS2005 licence to use it legitimately).

                    Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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                    • D Don Miguel

                      I just re-installed VS6 - after many years - for some MFC projects. I remember that few years ago I used for IDE a color scheme having bacground color black, and text yellow. It was very comfortable for my eyes. But now I can't remember exactly how the colors were set. I just can't found again the proper combination, to have that nice color sintaxing, and so on. So, anybody using now VC++ 6, can help me?

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                      John M Drescher
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                      I use the default scheme with the addition of visualassist with its enhanced syntax coloring.

                      John

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                      • A Anna Jayne Metcalfe

                        The only time I use it these days is for testing (we use VS2003 and VS2005 for mainstream stuff now - the VS6 compiler and libraries no longer offer the functionality we need). When I do use it it's with the default coliour scheme, but with Visual Assist X enabled and the editor font set to Consolas (it's a free download for VS2005, but it works in VS6 well enough - though you need a VS2005 licence to use it legitimately).

                        Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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                        benjymous
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                        Ahh, another Consolas user - I started using it thinking "if it gets on my nerves, I'll go back to Courier" That was a month or so ago, and so far it hasn't annoyed me, although I've got no idea whether it's in anyway better to read

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                        • B benjymous

                          Ahh, another Consolas user - I started using it thinking "if it gets on my nerves, I'll go back to Courier" That was a month or so ago, and so far it hasn't annoyed me, although I've got no idea whether it's in anyway better to read

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                          Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                          I do find it easier, although it has problems with code containing underscores in italics (Visual Assist, of course)...they appear as something else, which is a bit weird.

                          Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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                          • J John M Drescher

                            I use the default scheme with the addition of visualassist with its enhanced syntax coloring.

                            John

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                            Don Miguel
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                            John M. Drescher wrote:

                            ... visualassist with its enhanced syntax coloring.

                            :) This was what I didn't remember!!! Of course, I used Visual Assist, and it enabled setting background color to all IDE windows... Now, is clear to me why I can't resemble the good color scheme only with VS IDE options! Got my 5, solved my problem! Thanks! :)

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                            • D Don Miguel

                              I just re-installed VS6 - after many years - for some MFC projects. I remember that few years ago I used for IDE a color scheme having bacground color black, and text yellow. It was very comfortable for my eyes. But now I can't remember exactly how the colors were set. I just can't found again the proper combination, to have that nice color sintaxing, and so on. So, anybody using now VC++ 6, can help me?

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                              David Crow
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                              I use the default colors for most. I changed numbers to be red on white; keywords are blue on white; comments are green on white; strings are white on blue.


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