ColdFusion Builder Comment Colorization
Default colorization for ColdFusion Builder beta does not have background color set for comments. I guess lots of Dreamweaver users are used to having comment background colorized. Here’s a quick solution for that.
1) Open Editor Color Preferences(Window->Preferences->ColdFusion->Editor Profiles->Editor->Colors)
2) Click import and point to this colorization file
3) Click Apply. That’s it!!!…you are done.
Now, if you are wondering what this colorization file is, and are interested to know about it then keep reading.
Colorization file is an xml file, which tells ColdFusion Builder how to colorize CFML. This can be created by exporting your current colorization settings.
Once you open this file you will see styles assigned for different CFML tokens.
For eg. <style foreground=”rgb(0,0,192)” id=”KEYWORD”/> meaning create style with id KEYWORD with assigned RGB colors.
Now this style can be applied to any category or token as below
<category name=”KEYWORD” style=”KEYWORD”/>
this means all keywords are styled with style identified with id “KEYWORD”.
So you can have your own custom style created and assigned to available token or categories.
Note:In preference UI only style options available are to change foreground colors and text style as(Bold/Italic/Underlined).
To change background color, as in case of comments, this has to be put in colorization file and imported back to apply.
Here’s how you assign background color for comments
create style for both background and foreground color
<style background=”rgb(255,255,153)” foreground=”rgb(0,0,0)” id=”WHITESPACE_COMMENT”/>
assign it to comment token as
<category name=”WHITESPACE” style=”WHITESPACE”>
<token style=”WHITESPACE_COMMENT” type=”COMMENT”/>
</category>
So if you need to change comment background color, just assign corresponding RGB value to the color you want to set in comment style and import your colorization file again.
Tags: ColdFusion Builder, Colorization
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:44 am
Hi Sandeep,
Long time no see. Glad to see you’re still on the CF team.
I was just adjusting the foreground color on comments yesterday and noticed that there’s no option for background color. Thanks for this.
By the way, I checked Homesite and found that there is no default background color. They are the same, gray foreground without background color.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Thanks Steve,
made correction to my post :).