Colors not working in TextPad

twst · Post by **twst** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:13 am

Just purchased TextPad and colors are not working. Colors worked fine in 4.x version. Do they need to be enabled in 5.2? Checked Configure > preferences

Uninstalled 5.2 - reinstalled 4.7.3 and it works fine. 5.2 buggy?

Thanks

talleyrand · Post by **talleyrand** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:08 pm

Create an empty document

Into it, paste
http://forums.textpad.com

Right click in the background and select Properties

Syntax tab, check Enable syntax highlighting

For your Syntax definition file, choose text.syn

Does it go blue?

janoble · Post by **janoble** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 2:13 pm

Talleyrand, thanks for the instructions on how to manually enable highlighting. Your suggestion works for individual files.

I'm using 5.2 and think I should be able to turn highlighting on as a default for all documents of a certain class. However when I go to Configure -> Preferences -> Document Classes -> [class name] -> Syntax, check the "Enable syntax highlighting" box and press the Apply button nothing changes. I've tried this with a document of that class loaded and with no document loaded at all. The result is the same - no highlighting.

Any ideas on how to configure the default syntax highlighting?

Thanks for any help.

janoble · Post by **janoble** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 2:19 pm

Duh, never mind. Typically, right after my previous post I realized I had not chosen the syntax file to use from the list of possibilies. No problem, the process I described does exactly as expected.

Sorry for time waste. It's great to have the boards to bounce ideas off.

Thanks