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How do you save your custom colours? [message #333368]

Sat, 06 December 2008 07:41

Adam Nielsen

Messages: 15
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi all,

I've noticed that when you're configuring syntax highlighting, the colour
selector has a number of spots where you can save frequently used colours.
This helps a lot to get a uniform colour scheme across all the
syntax-highlighting editors.

Unfortunately however it seems that any colours you set up are lost when you
restart Eclipse.

Is there any way to make Eclipse remember the custom colours you've set across
restarts? (Or can you edit the 'master list' somewhere?)

Thanks,
Adam.

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Re: How do you save your custom colours? [message #333370 is a reply to message #333368]

Sat, 06 December 2008 08:04

Remy Suen

Messages: 462
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Adam Nielsen wrote:
> Unfortunately however it seems that any colours you set up are lost when you
> restart Eclipse.
>
> Is there any way to make Eclipse remember the custom colours you've set across
> restarts? (Or can you edit the 'master list' somewhere?)

The colour picker is something from the operating system. So I guess
that'd be an OS configuration, if it's even available.

Remy

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Re: How do you save your custom colours? [message #333372 is a reply to message #333370]

Sat, 06 December 2008 08:25

Adam Nielsen

Messages: 15
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

>> Is there any way to make Eclipse remember the custom colours you've
>> set across
>> restarts? (Or can you edit the 'master list' somewhere?)
>
> The colour picker is something from the operating system. So I guess
> that'd be an OS configuration, if it's even available.

Ah ok - but doesn't Java provide an interface to this? Under one popular OS
the function to display the colour picker returns an array of user-specified
values, which it's up to the program to store and retrieve. If the Java
function does the same, then Eclipse should still save and retrieve those
values returned by the Java function.

I'm not familiar enough with Java to know which function displays this colour
picker window, so I can't check to see if this is the case.

Cheers,
Adam.

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Re: How do you save your custom colours? [message #333375 is a reply to message #333372]

Sun, 07 December 2008 19:16

Mike Jackson

Messages: 128
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

On 2008-12-06 03:25:43 -0500, Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen@shikadi.net> said:

>>> Is there any way to make Eclipse remember the custom colours you've
>>> set across
>>> restarts? (Or can you edit the 'master list' somewhere?)
>>
>> The colour picker is something from the operating system. So I guess
>> that'd be an OS configuration, if it's even available.
>
> Ah ok - but doesn't Java provide an interface to this? Under one popular OS
> the function to display the colour picker returns an array of user-specified
> values, which it's up to the program to store and retrieve. If the Java
> function does the same, then Eclipse should still save and retrieve those
> values returned by the Java function.
>
> I'm not familiar enough with Java to know which function displays this colour
> picker window, so I can't check to see if this is the case.
>
> Cheers,
> Adam.

This is most probably an OS issue. On OS X my list of custom colors is
global across ALL applications that use the native color picker.

Mike

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