Syntax Highlight Color questions

[asterisc]

Hi guys,

I have two questions about "Syntax Highlight" color scheme.

1. is there a way to identify the code as:
- classes
- variables
- methods
I used to use Visual Assist on top of Visual Studio, and I liked very much their way of highlighting the things. Is there a way to "borrow" that behavior in CodeLite?

2. I saw you can set Global background color, but it's pretty annoying to have to set "Style background color" for every single Language Attribute. Is there a way to improve the Syntax Highlight dialog to make the default color for every Language Attribute the "Global background color" unless the user wants to define another color?

Thanks,
Rares

[eranif]

1. is there a way to identify the code as:
- classes
- variables
- methods

settings -> tags settings -> General tab

tick: 'colour local variables' && 'colour workspace tags'

2. I saw you can set Global background color, but it's pretty annoying to have to set "Style background color" for every single Language Attribute. Is there a way to improve the Syntax Highlight dialog to make the default color for every Language Attribute the "Global background color" unless the user wants to define another color?

Whats wrong with the 'set global background colour' button which sets the background for all styles for a given language?

Eran

[asterisc]

Codelite doesn't see any difference between methods and classes. (basically a class define a new datatype, as "int", and methods don't do that, that's why I like to have a difference between these two).
Furthermore, I believe the methods arguments are seen as "workspace tags" instead of "variables". Is that true?

Set global background works now, but yesterday evening, setting global background color didn't change any Language Attribute background color. Strange.
Thanks Eran.

[eranif]

Codelite doesn't see any difference between methods and classes. (basically a class define a new datatype, as "int", and methods don't do that, that's why I like to have a difference between these two).
Furthermore, I believe the methods arguments are seen as "workspace tags" instead of "variables". Is that true?

Set global background works now, but yesterday evening, setting global background color didn't change any Language Attribute background color. Strange.
Thanks Eran.

It does know the difference, however, codelite allows use to colour two groups:
- local variables
- class/methods/enums/members etc.

This is done like this, since we only got 2 colour set available from scintilla.

Eran