VS6 - what color scheme do you use?
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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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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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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?
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 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
Charting control [Updated - v1.1]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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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?
I stick with the default.
Kevin
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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?
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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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?
I use the default scheme with the addition of visualassist with its enhanced syntax coloring.
John
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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.
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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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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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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I use the default scheme with the addition of visualassist with its enhanced syntax coloring.
John
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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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?
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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