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Bug 297317

Summary:	[console] Console background color is sometimes white when first opens
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Spyrus <arxidiamidia>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	Platform-Debug-Inbox <platform-debug-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	golimpio, Michael_Rennie, pawel.1.piech, remy.suen, rlayfield11
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Spyrus

2009-12-09 05:55:30 EST

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091103 SUSE/3.5.5-3.1 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: 20090920-1017

The console has the grey color set as background.
When the 'fast view' is first opened the color is grey.
Then when it reopens it is fixed (it is grey)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set console as Fast View
2.Set console to open when only standard error occurs
3.Set background color of console to gray (#BFBFBF)
4.Close Eclipse
5.Restart Eclipse and do some compile and watch the console when it pop-ups

Comment 1 rlayfield11

2010-06-23 15:33:41 EDT

Confirmed for Windows 7 Enterprise (64-bit) under Java 1.6.0_20-b02 as well. I have my Console background set to black.  However, when I close Eclipse and re-open it, the displayed background Console color reverts to white. However, my preferences show it "should" be black. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to reproduce:
1. Load Eclipse
2. Set console background color to something aside from white
3. Close Eclipse
4. Re-open Eclipse; background color for Console will now be white. Preferences still show it as the selected color from step 2. 

Color cannot be changed until a different color is selected (i.e. select different color from that of step 2, hit 'Apply', then re-select original choice).

Comment 2 Spyrus

2010-06-24 05:09:33 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Confirmed for Windows 7 Enterprise (64-bit) under Java 1.6.0_20-b02 as well. I
> have my Console background set to black.  However, when I close Eclipse and
> re-open it, the displayed background Console color reverts to white. However,
> my preferences show it "should" be black. 
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Load Eclipse
> 2. Set console background color to something aside from white
> 3. Close Eclipse
> 4. Re-open Eclipse; background color for Console will now be white. Preferences
> still show it as the selected color from step 2. 
> 
> Color cannot be changed until a different color is selected (i.e. select
> different color from that of step 2, hit 'Apply', then re-select original
> choice).

When the console is auto-cleared, e.g. another compile is done,
then the background color will be fixed.

Comment 3 rlayfield11

2010-06-24 11:46:10 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Confirmed for Windows 7 Enterprise (64-bit) under Java 1.6.0_20-b02 as well. I
> > have my Console background set to black.  However, when I close Eclipse and
> > re-open it, the displayed background Console color reverts to white. However,
> > my preferences show it "should" be black. 
> > 
> > Reproducible: Always
> > 
> > Steps to reproduce:
> > 1. Load Eclipse
> > 2. Set console background color to something aside from white
> > 3. Close Eclipse
> > 4. Re-open Eclipse; background color for Console will now be white. Preferences
> > still show it as the selected color from step 2. 
> > 
> > Color cannot be changed until a different color is selected (i.e. select
> > different color from that of step 2, hit 'Apply', then re-select original
> > choice).
> 
> When the console is auto-cleared, e.g. another compile is done,
> then the background color will be fixed.

Very true for applications which use the console directly; however, the same workaround does not appear to have an effect when the console is used strictly for server status.

Comment 4 Gilberto Olimpio

2011-01-03 23:07:54 EST

This is still occurring and it's not a platform specific bug (I've tested the Mac/Linux and Windows versions).

The last Eclipse 3.7 integration build still have this bug.

Comment 5 Spyrus

2011-01-04 03:30:42 EST

Still happens with Windows 7 x64 bit
Build id: 20100917-0705

Comment 6 Pawel Piech

2011-06-07 19:06:08 EDT

Appears like duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 278529 ***