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user1670025
user1670025

Reputation: 21

Visual Studio 2012 variable font color reverts to black from user-selected color

I am rather new to using Visual Studio and I am attempting to use a color scheme that is very similar to Sublime Text 2 as I enjoy the highlighting of this text editor.

I have downloaded the Sublime Text Theme from here.

When I import the theme, the colors change except for the variable names and the std namespace. Those revert to black for some inexplicable reason. I have tried installing other themes/color schemes and all have the aforementioned problem. I have attempted to go into options and change the font color for variables/namespaces to the desired color. It will revert to black as soon as I leave options.

I have opened and closed VS 2012, rebooted my computer, and attempted the use of other .cpp files with no avail.

I can make the colors display properly by typing a character on line one and moving the #include <iostream> down a line. You can see the difference in the attached photo. Any thoughts on what is causing this or how to fix the problem?

PS, I can't add the photo to my post as a new member, so here's the link to imgur.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2329

Answers (2)

aegis
aegis

Reputation: 369

I had the same problem. The way I solved it was by changing the theme from light to dark.

Check this thread to see how: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9596223/1426601

Upvotes: 0

Elian ten Holder
Elian ten Holder

Reputation: 362

I have found the solution to this problem. For some strange reason the theme is not imported correctly. You can manually change the color of the "c++ Local variables" and the "c++ namespace" color by going to options -> enviroment -> fonts and colors.

Upvotes: 1

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