[Adam]

I just did a pulse upgrade from 8.5 to 8.6,
I use a dark backgound and when it upgraded my javascript editor color settings seam to be lost.
Other editors seam fine. I can not locate where to change the default black javascript color for local variables such.

How can I change these colors back to a color visible on a dark background.

Thanks in advance, Adam

[support-joy]

Adam,

Sorry to hear you are running into this issue. Can you do the following – open MyEclipse IDE, from menu options click on Window > Preferences > MyEclipse > Files and Editors > Javascript > Editor > Syntax Color and set the required color.

Best.

[Adam]

I have changed all those colors the issue is some elements dont have a color setting in that menu.There are still elements in javascript that appear black. This is my issue there seams to be no way to set the default text color in the javascript editor. In the below code snippit the following Items are black and I cant find the setting to change.

Not visible (id,name,startDate,Id,Name,StartDate,ParentTasks) I can see all the keywords, parns,selicols,and brackets however. I have also changed the defaut forcolor to white but it doesnt use in the javascript editor. It does show up as white in the text editor.

function GanttProjectInfo(id, name, startDate)
{
this.Id = id;
this.Name = name;
this.StartDate = startDate;
this.ParentTasks = [];
}

[support-joy]

shady14u,

I have replied to your [PM]. For other forum users –
1. Please open – Window > Preferences. Click on [Restore Defaults], [Apply] and [OK]
2. Perform -clean as mentioned here – https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/troubleshoot-using-the-clean-command-line-argument/
3. If the above 2 steps don’t work, please switch to a new workspace. Make sure you don’t copy the same preferences from your old workspace to new workspace.

You should be all set.

Best.

[Adam]

Joy That does restore my settings back to default however it does not sove the issue of not being able to change the javascript text. The text still remains Black. To reproduce this issue please create a new workspace, Add a web project, create a new file called test.js, open that file in the myeclipse javascript editor, paste the following snippit into the file. Then from the menu go to window->prefs -> general -> editors -> text editors and change the forground to white and the ba

function GanttProjectInfo(id, name, startDate)
{
this.Id = id;
this.Name = name;
this.StartDate = startDate;
this.ParentTasks = [];
}

[Adam]

Joy That does restore my settings back to default however it does not sove the issue of not being able to change the javascript text. The text still remains Black. To reproduce this issue please create a new workspace, Add a web project, create a new file called test.js, open that file in the myeclipse javascript editor, paste the following snippit into the file. Then from the menu go to window->prefs -> general -> editors -> text editors and change the forground to white and the ba

function GanttProjectInfo(id, name, startDate)
{
this.Id = id;
this.Name = name;
this.StartDate = startDate;
this.ParentTasks = [];
}

[Adam]

Joy That does restore my settings back to default however it does not solve the issue of not being able to change the javascript text color. The text still remains Black. To reproduce this issue please create a new workspace, Add a web project, create a new file called test.js, open that file in the myeclipse javascript editor, paste the following snippit into the file. Then from the menu go to window->prefs -> general -> editors -> text editors and change the forground to white and the background to black… Now how can i edit the font colors to see all that black text?

Thank you in advance

function GanttProjectInfo(id, name, startDate)
{
this.Id = id;
this.Name = name;
this.StartDate = startDate;
this.ParentTasks = [];
}

[support-joy]

shady14u,

Can you change the syntax coloring here – Window > Preferences > MyEclipse > Files and Editors > Javascript > Editor > Syntax Coloring

Best.

[Adam]

Like I have stated over and over there is no setting (that I can see) to change those above Items color from Black… Please Provide the the exact setting to change the Items I mentioned in this post to a color other then Black.

Regards,

[Tony]

I can validate what Adam is seeing in MyEclipse 8.6 because I, too, use a dark background instead of the default white. Just as Adam mentioned, there is no option anywhere that will override the black color. There is probably a defect in the syntax highlighting system for Javascript (it could be a typo in an internal settings file, or a cut and paste error that was made in the Java code).

The items that are being displayed in black are all identifier types (e.g. variable names, function/method names, class names).

For example:
var employeeRow = opener.newEmployeeRow();
employeeRow.key = key;
employeeRow.name = displayName;
employeeRow.duplicate = duplicate;
employeeRow.address = tableObj.rows[selectedRow].cells[3].innerHTML;

I hope you can appreciate how annoying this issue is. Updating from one version of MyEclipse to a newer one should not break the color settings. It’s time to step up and acknowledge this issue as a defect.

Regards,
Tony

[support-joy]

Tony, Shady4U,

Looks like this is a bug in ME 8.6. Thank you for reporting this. I have validated that this works fine in 8.5 and earlier versions. Certain options under Window > Preferences > MyEclipse > Files and Editors > Javascript > Editor > Syntax Coloring are missing from 8.5.
As shown by Tony, the color of items highlighted in black cannot be changed.
I shall file a PR for the dev team to fix this issue ASAP.
In the interim, I would recommend you not to change the background color to black, but choose a lighter shade like light gray. Similarly, for the foreground color choose a different color than white (window > preferences > general > editors > text editors).
Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Adam]

Joy,
Thank you for forwarding this on to the Team. I would just like to express my fustration with this support. It took 6 days of back and forth and countless trouble shooting on my end to try all these bogus suggestions. I believe my inital post was enough for this issue to be verified. I also provided a detailed way to reproduce this issue which was discarded until another user verified it. What sort of support fires off shotgun generic responses without understanding the issue? I am very disappointed that I pay for a license for this type of support.

[IT Operations]

I’m still seeing this issue over a month after the last communication in the thread. Will this be addressed any time soon?

[Brian Fernandes]

This bug will be fixed in the 9.0M1 release due this weekend. We are also planning another 8.6 release (if you wish to stick with our production Galileo stream) which will have this fix, this is due in 2 weeks from now. Sorry for the delay and inconvenience caused.

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