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Bug 153421 - Fonts & Colors improvement
Summary: Fonts & Colors improvement
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155964
Alias: None
Product: editor
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Formatting & Indentation (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@editor
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Reported: 2008-11-18 20:25 UTC by mjr_1974
Modified: 2009-02-19 20:45 UTC (History)
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Description mjr_1974 2008-11-18 20:25:52 UTC 
The fonts and Colors section in the basic Options Window has a preview, a class Called JavaExample. This class is not
editable and does not show all the color combinations applicable. I think it should be editable so we could write a
class that reflects what we're evaluating and trying to change. Maybe by presing Alt and clicking in an element it can
be found in the list as it works now with the JavaExample class. The different options for highlighting should also be
shown in the example providing an easy way to configure that too... Now, for example, I'm having trouble to configure
how the occurrences of a selected element are shown -highlighted- in the text editor (for example after clicking on a
method variable, all the occurrences/uses of that variable are highlighted).
I read different posts at the Netbeans Users forum linking to this problem, and I think it's worth solving it to improve
the user experience with the IDE.
Thanks
Comment 1 mjr_1974 2008-11-19 22:26:34 UTC 
Sorry, now I know why I was having a lot of trouble configuring the colors of the IDE. The options are already there,
but when a color that is inherited by a component is modified, this change is not reflected by the square that contains
the color next to the "inherited..." label. After confirming the change, if I return to the IDE i can see the changes in
the component, but if I go back to Options->Fonts&Colors the inherited color is not properly shown in the component that
inherits it.
Comment 2 Jiri Prox 2008-11-20 11:46:11 UTC 
Can you please try it in 6.5. I cannot reproduce it.
Thanks
Comment 3 Vitezslav Stejskal 2009-02-16 13:58:51 UTC 
The issues mentioned here have already been filed in different reports, eg:

issue #155964 - Make Preview panels editable!!
issue #149902 - [Fonts & Colors] Semantic coloring does not work in the preview
issue #156516 - difficult to discover controls for mustard color of Mark Occurrences feature

So I am closing this as a duplicate of #155964. Thanks for the report.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 155964 ***