Visual Studio 2022 Theme Designer having issues with opaque dark backgrounds on characters in code
When using Visual Studio Color Theme Designer 2022 to create a new theme, what option is specifically causing this nearly opaque dark background for the Text Editor's characters? It is messing with the text highlighting colors I set.
I already went through Text Editor categories and set the backgrounds I could find there to #00000000 to be transparent but no effect on the oddity I am seeing above. I did save and apply the theme. Then close and re-open Visual Studio and ensured the new theme is applied.
I did fresh install Visual Studio yesterday so everything is latest version and should be clean. Ideas?
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The font settings are starting to be independent of color themes, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/how-to-change-fonts-and-colors-in-visual-studio?view=vs-2022#preserve-font-settings-across-theme-changes which might contribute to what you observed.
Tried disabling that and the high contrast setting but no change. But it doesn't rule out what you linked. If VS is in a weird state in the backend and the theme designer is conflicting with that, I guess I should contact support for Visual Studio 2022 Theme Designer. But I can't seem to find the contact info for where to report designer's issues to on their marketplace page. Their Q&A section there seems to be practically ignored.
If you work for a company with active support contract with Microsoft, you can open a support ticket with Microsoft support team. Otherwise, you can only report via VS itself, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/how-to-report-a-problem-with-visual-studio?view=vs-2022 and see if Microsoft responds. I don't think Color Theme Editor is considered an official feature to support but who knows. Give it a try and see what happens.
Made a post.
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Themes-created-with-Visual-Studio-2022-T/10951777
I like how images uploaded to their site editor doesn't actually work lol
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