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Pat Alessi - 21 Apr 2004 19:33 GMT

Is it possible to have the IDE change the background color of the line
that the cursor is on? That would be nice.

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Les Smith - 21 Apr 2004 20:53 GMT

Pat,
I don't think this is possible. Only in the debugger is the current
executing line colored. I see nothing in the fonts and colors of the
Options dialog which will allow you to do that. I have seen third party
editors do this, but VB editor has never done it that I am aware of.

Les Smith
http://www.KnowDotNet.com

> Is it possible to have the IDE change the background color of the line
> that the cursor is on? That would be nice.

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Pat Alessi - 23 Apr 2004 18:18 GMT

Yeah, I suspected as much when I found the same thing in the options.
I combed over the object model for visual studio to see if I could
write an add in to do this, but I couldn't find a BGColor or similar
type of property for the texteditor object...or anything that would be
remotely usable in this regard.

Maybe they'll add it as an option in Longhorn

> Pat,
> I don't think this is possible. Only in the debugger is the current
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> > Is it possible to have the IDE change the background color of the line
> > that the cursor is on? That would be nice.

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