I've recently installed the new IDE version and have been trying to change the color scheme so it is a light type font over a grey background so that I can easily read the editor with my eyes that don't see so well. I have replaced my themes numbers with numbers I previously used to do this in older versions and now the text is coming up black.
I am curious what variable actually declares the text color when you're typing, before it becomes a keyword, etc. ?
I can't seem to figure this out and I've manually changed almost all of them with no luck. If anyone has knowledge of how to do this in the new 1.6.5, I'd love to hear it.
Note that the IDE just allows you to select "Use external editor" it does NOT require you to say what editor you use. That confused me for a time. The IDE just checks if the file was changed and reloads it if it was.
And you must still use the Arduino system of having the file myProj.ino inside a directory called myProj
So I've been playing around with Notepad ++and Geany too, to see what I like better - and am trying to figure out if there's a way to colorcode keywords like arduino does? When I open the settings on either to change style, on ++ I get many languages and filetypes (.ino) isn't present though, and I haven't been able to see where I would do this in Geany yet. Is there a way to change these keywords' colors?
Also, is there REALLY no way to change the type font color in the Arduino IDE? I'm going through all of this trouble to just change ONE color that is off, and now have been going through multiple software packages color schemes, trying to achieve most of the same things I already have done in the IDE, but can't get the cursor/font to where I want.
I still have yet to understand how the external editor reads/receives the code and vice versa upon saving - and how this is uploaded seamlessly. It seems like a great idea to use an external editor, but I'm having just as much trouble getting these color schemes where I want them, although I can now read them.
Any tips to help get things where I need would be great.
jengil:
I'm going through all of this trouble to just change ONE color that is off, and now have been going through multiple software packages color schemes, trying to achieve most of the same things I already have done in the IDE, but can't get the cursor/font to where I want.
Have a look here on setting up keyword colour match in NPP. Might be out of date now as it was done for older version of IDE but you will get the idea.
I needed a little guidance as its hard to work around when difficult to see. I now have an updated theme for the IDE, along with working notepad++ to experiment between and figure out which will work best for me - I appreciate the guidance and suggestions.
For future reference as far as setting up notepad++, it had added .ino as a user extension automatically to the C# in the style config, so I just edited the colors in this section (which I didn't realize it had the ino extensions stored under) and got it going. I had been trying to add and edit the C and C++ user extensions, but the C# color schemes had taken precedence.
Robin2, I'd gladly trade you eyes and let you use the default color schemes and see how much of your codewriting turns to fussing...
Thanks for all of the help getting me working away again.
