Can we set colors for elements such as Line Numbers?

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Posted 11 years ago by Michael Dempsey - Sr. Developer, Teradata Corp
Version: 12.1.0302
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I am building a Visual Studio exennsion project that will use Syntax Editor instead of Visual Studio's own editor. I am trying to integrate it as closely as possible and have already set all the Language Styles using colors from Visual Studio's option preferences.

I am now trying to set the colors for the elements that are outside the main text area but have not been able to find properties to do this.

The areas I am looking for are:
    Line Numbers             (Fore and Back)
    Indicator Margin         (Back only)
    Collapsed Text            (Fore and Back)
    Brace match highlight  (Back only)

Are there properties available to control these colors?    

Thanks
Mike

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Posted 11 years ago by Tobias Lingemann - Software Devolpment Engineer, Vector Informatik GmbH
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Line numbers and indicator margin are modified in the renderer. You might need to cast the object to VisualStudio2005SyntaxEditorRenderer.

For the brace matching you need to add a highlighting style to your language that uses "BracketHighlightingStyle" as key.


Best regards, Tobias Lingemann.

Answer - Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Yes, Tobias is right.

BracketHighlightingStyle and CollapsibleTextStyle are special highlighting style keys that when registered will alter those areas.  You can see the ActiproSoftware.CSharp.xml file for a sample of those.

The line and indicator margin colors can be set via the renderer tied to SyntaxEditor.  If you cast SyntaxEditor.RenderResolved to a VisualStudio2005SyntaxEditorRenderer, you can set them on there.  For instance, the IndicatorMarginBackgroundFill property.


Actipro Software Support

Posted 11 years ago by Michael Dempsey - Sr. Developer, Teradata Corp
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Thanks

The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 1 month ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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