Tom Humphrey wrote:
>  
>  Hello,
>  
>   I would like to set Visual Perl to have the same fonts and colors as 
>  Komodo defaults. Is this possible?

I don't know an easy way.  Visual Perl shares its settings with all the
other languages, and by default inherits the current VS values.

>  
>   I would also like to know how I can save my font and color settings so 
>  that I may quickly set them on another machine, without having to set 
>  them by hand.

The values seem to be stored in your personal VS registry area.  I haven't
done it myself, but you could try exporting these registry values to a file:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\FontAndColors\{A27B4E24-A735-4D1D-B8E7
-9716E1E3D8E0}

and then import the file in a different machine.  This is just the
color names introduced by Visual Perl -- I'm not sure where the
other values would go.

I got that GUID there from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\FontAndColors\Text Editor\\Category

I'm not sure if that value is fixed in VS.Net 7.1 or installation-dependent, and my
VS 2005 machine is currently running Linux, and the VS 2002 machine is turned off.


>  
>   The default settings for Visual Perl's fonts and colors are horrific. 
>  Is there any way I can change these without changing them all by hand?

I'm afraid you'll have to do some digging in the registry and in Visual
Studio's own automation area.  The DTE object (Typelib
"Microsoft Development Environment 7.0") exposes a collection called
"FontsAndColorsItems", which contains a set of objects of type
"ColorableItems", but I've never worked with it, and have no other
documentation on it at hand.

Hmmm  .. property names are
String Name
OLE_COLOR Foreground
OLE_COLOR Background
boolean Bold

It looks doable, and in Perl even.  Use Win32::OLE to grab or
create a reference to a VS 7 object, get the DTE object,
find your way to the ColorableItems collection.

Hope this helps,
Eric

>  
>  Thanks!
>  
>  Tom Humphrey
>  
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