Color Editor dialog box
The Edit | Preferences | Edit Window Colors menu option displays the Color Editor dialog box. You must be in Command mode or DMIS mode to select this menu item.
The Color Editor dialog box allows you to define the colors used for the Edit window text and background when you have the Edit window in Command and DMIS modes. You can also export your color scheme to use on different computer systems or import external color schemes.
The Color Editor dialog box only specifies the colors in textual modes of the Edit window such as the Command and DMIS.
There are four principal colors that you can configure for all commands or for individual commands. To determine whether to show these colors as a highlighted background color or as text color, select or clear the Enable Background Highlighting check box. These are listed in the four boxes in the Command Text Colors area.
Marked
Unmarked
Step Mode
Error
By default, PC-DMIS selects the Enable Background Highlighting check box which makes the boxes appear with these colors:
If you clear this check box to enable text coloring instead, PC-DMIS shows the boxes as follows:
Principal Colors
Marked - PC-DMIS uses this color on features that you mark for execution. PC-DMIS always executes some features such as alignments are always executed and are always displayed in the Marked color.
Unmarked - PC-DMIS uses this color for unmarked features. This color is the default color. If no other condition is present, then PC-DMIS uses the default color.
Step Mode - PC-DMIS uses this color to highlight the next execution line of code that occurs when executing a measurement routine that contains breakpoints.
Error - PC-DMIS uses this color for commands that are in error or measurements that are outside of their tolerance limits. For example, if the measurement routine calls for a tip that is not defined in the probe database, PC-DMIS colors this tip text with the Error color.
You can also change background colors for the Edit window, dimensions, and the highlight color.
Background Color - This sets the Edit window's background color.
Dimension Background Color - This sets the dimension's reporting boxes' background color.
Highlight Background Color - This sets the background color when dragging the mouse to select a command or group of commands.
You might be interested in color schemes created by other users. You can search for those on the PC-DMIS forums. For example, to get an unsupported dark theme created by one of our writers, go to this post.
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To change the command text colors used