Leading on from the question Can I change font Color and/or Type for IDE 1.5.6r2?, in 1.6.0, or 1.6.11 it does not seem to be possible to change console.color
or console.error.color
. To be precise, you can change the settings in the preferences.txt
2 file, but they appear to be ignored when the IDE is restarted. Have these become hard coded? I see from the preference.txt example file that
# Some colors have been hardcoded into the source in app/ in order to ensure
# consistency with the images distributed and stored with the application.
# They have been commented out below so that users who install an old
# version of the software will not get incorrect colors left-over from this
# config file.
However, the settings to which I refer are not commented out, and so would led me to believe that they can be changed. Orange text on black is just horrific to read.
For example:
console.error.color=#FFF000
console.color=#FFCCCC
but I still get white/orange(red?) text for the output and error messages respectively.
I am making the edits while the Arduino IDE is not running.
1 In 1.6.3 the ignored console.color
etc. lines appear to have been removed from the preferences.txt
file.
2 C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Arduino15\preferences.txt