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Mark
#1 Posted : Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:38:07 PM(UTC)
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I went to go configure the color scheme of NCrunch to look not so appalling on the VS 2012 dark theme today and what I walked away with after some frustration was a set of comments.

1) NCrunch Configuration window show start with something selected by default. I was under the impression that the settings I want would be under All Solutions and was surprised they weren't on the bottom pane to begin with. So after some poking around I gave up and went back to the "All Solutions Node and low and behold, the settings I wanted were there." You should make it obvious that it is or isn't selected and choose a default content for the lower pane.

2) The color block next to the color code should pull up a brush tool. I probably clicked on that colored block 3 or 4 times before I learned that it wasn't going to do what I expected. (Note I didn't find the drop down arrow on the right of the color until I finished this post)

3) You should have a cancel/confirm/apply scheme for this window. (Try changing your foreground to black and your text to white and you'll understand why). One of them has to go first and unless you're smarter than I am and picked an intermediate color, it's pretty frustrating.

4) The windows don't seem to apply the color immediately. I set my colors, went to the test window and saw now changes. I went back to config, did no changes. Reopened the test window and then had my changes. I also noticed that the config background itself gave different backgrounds to the top and bottom panes, that seemed pretty counterintuitive.

5) Also need some options to change the color of the toolbars hosted in the windows. I can't find any options to get them to match the black background,,, but at least about 90% of the window matches VS 2012 now... Just need that last 10%.

Thanks,
Mark Smith
Remco
#2 Posted : Tuesday, October 23, 2012 8:21:30 PM(UTC)
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Hi Mark -

Thanks for sharing these problems. I'm sorry that adjusting these configuration options was such a frustrating experience for you. These options were introduced late in the release in an effort to still provide some way of allowing NCrunch to more closely align with Visual Studio, although there is still considerable refinement needed in this area. In an ideal world, NCrunch would align with Visual Studio's colour scheme automatically and the options wouldn't be needed. I'll see what I can do about improving them.


Cheers,

Remco
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Mark on 10/24/2012(UTC)
Mark
#3 Posted : Wednesday, October 24, 2012 12:25:51 PM(UTC)
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Thanks Remco,

No problem Remco, took maybe 10-15 minutes to get it configured. And don't worry, the color scheme issues were way less frustrating than other things I do on a day to day basis. As usual, just want to make sure you get the feedback you need to keep your backlog full.

Enjoying the usage of the 1.42 although there was some confusion on the licensing rights here.

Mark
Remco
#4 Posted : Wednesday, October 24, 2012 9:06:43 PM(UTC)
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Thanks Mark! If you have any questions about the licensing, please drop me a note via the contact form and I'll be happy to discuss it further.


Cheers,

Remco
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#5 Posted : Monday, December 10, 2012 5:31:09 AM(UTC)
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For anyone interested, 1.43 has just been released with improvements to the way in which NCrunch tool window colours can be configured. I hope that this should solve the usability issues described above.


Cheers,

Remco
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Mark on 12/10/2012(UTC)
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#6 Posted : Monday, December 10, 2012 1:13:37 PM(UTC)
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Thanks Remco, I'll download it and give it a try.
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