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Bug 156761 - [console] Allow possibility of changing console background color
Summary: [console] Allow possibility of changing console background color
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Debug (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.3 M4   Edit
Assignee: Michael Rennie CLA
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Reported: 2006-09-08 15:33 EDT by Andre John Mas CLA
Modified: 2008-06-05 15:51 EDT (History)
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Description Andre John Mas CLA 2006-09-08 15:33:38 EDT 
Currently the options for the console allow the changing of the colors of:

  - command line
  - message
  - error

though there is nothing allowing the changing of the background color. It would be nice to allow the changing of the console background colour.
Comment 1 Darin Wright CLA 2006-11-17 12:44:26 EST 
Do you want to set the background color for a stream, or for the entire console?
Comment 2 Andre John Mas CLA 2006-11-17 15:20:30 EST 
I had been thinking just the console, imagining it as something fairly general, much in the same way as a terminal.

If we were to allow stream background colour to ba changed, then I would still want the console to have a user selectable default colour, since it would be used as the 'clear colour'. If a stream has a 'null' background colour, then it would default to using the console's background colour.

All this said and done, just the console background colour would be enough, with a per-stream being a bonus.
Comment 3 Andre John Mas CLA 2006-11-17 15:25:25 EST 
Extra note, if the background colour is specified as 'null', then the system default colour would be used, as it is done now.
Comment 4 Darin Wright CLA 2006-11-17 17:03:55 EST 
Fixed. Added API to TextConsole to change set a background color. Added a preference to the debugger's process console for background color (on Console preference page).
Comment 5 Darin Wright CLA 2006-11-17 17:05:04 EST 
Please verify, Mike.
Comment 6 Michael Rennie CLA 2006-11-20 10:49:57 EST 
verified
Comment 7 Christos Vasilakis CLA 2008-06-05 15:51:09 EDT 
Hi,

(I am using Eclipse 3.3.2 (Europa))

After setting the background color of the console through the preferences dialog, I create a simple "Hello World" project and run it. Unfortunately the console has the default color. If I re-run the application the console gets the color I have specified and stays that way for the rest of my eclipse session. If I restart the IDE I get the same experience.

Please note that I have heavily changed the colors of the Java editor ie.default background of the java editor, keywords etc. I don't know if the console background is influenced from these settings.


If you have the time please fix it :)

Regards,
Christos