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My default text editing scheme uses a black background, with light foreground. In the Find and Find & Replace search boxes, the foreground is black & red, the cursor is white, while the background is also white. This makes it very difficult to see. I see no way to change this via the Editor or Fonts & Colors options. It would be better if the color scheme was either changeable via options, or used a default contrasting scheme.
Which build do you use?
There was a problem in 7.2 dev build, so please write your build date from Help-About.
NetBeans IDE 7.2 RC1 (Build 201206272359)
Ok, it should be fixed in 7.2 RC1, so I need more details. Have you changed font&colors in netbeans to dark theme or some MacOs system colors? What is your look and feel? Can you attach screenshot? I have a white background on current dev build (Build 201207110002) on mac os 10.5.8, java 1.6
Created attachment 121986 [details] White cursor on white background Yes. As I said in the initial report, I use a black background with colored foreground.
If it matters, I'm running Lion (OSX 10.7).
Created attachment 121987 [details] Look and Feel screenshot My custom theme: black background, colored foreground.
Ok, I misunderstood description. I think you had black background and you want white one. But you have white one and you want black background. And I am sorry, there is no option to change color of other windows than editor itself. Find Usages, Project View, all them are in white background. Look bug #151069
(In reply to comment #8) > Ok, I misunderstood description. I think you had black background and you want > white one. But you have white one and you want black background. And I am > sorry, there is no option to change color of other windows than editor itself. > Find Usages, Project View, all them are in white background. > > Look bug #151069 No, this is not about user color preferences, this is a bug. This is about being able to see the cursor in the the search box and the bottom of the window. If the cursor color and background color are the same, how can I see it? It does not matter which colors I choose for my editor; the search box colors are still white-on-white. Let me restate this: I have a black background in the editor itself. The editor coloring is fine. I only include this information because it seems to be related to the bug, but maybe it isn't. The search box background color is white, and the search box cursor color is also white. I cannot see a white cursor on a white background. I don't mind what color scheme the search box uses, as long as it's enough contrast to actually see the cursor. The standard black-on-white would be fine.
Ok, I will fix it
http://hg.netbeans.org/jet-main/rev/eb1cbace4221
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201208290001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/eb1cbace4221 User: Milutin Kristofic <mkristofic@netbeans.org> Log: #215433 - Search box cursor is same color as background