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NicCrockett
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January 31, 2017
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Color Coding

  • January 31, 2017
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I switched from Adobe GoLive CS2 to Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2017. Yes, I know that's a big jump. Dreamweaver CC 2017 is the dumbest program for understanding and displaying code colors in the interface. GoLive CS2 could understand code coloring without any preference changes and it is more than a decade older than Dreamweaver CC 2017. I am honestly thinking about switching back to GoLive CS2 just so I can read the code. I have tried everything I can find online about changing code coloring. Including Adobe's own, incomplete, how to on changing code colors (Learn how you can customize the colors of your code elements in Dreamweaver. ). I say incomplete because the description on how to change "Customize code colors for mixed code files" doesn't actually tell you how to change colors for all file types. On top of that, it doesn't actually change the colors for the coding languages mixed in the same file. It did change some coloring, but I have ASP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and JQuery all mixed up in one file. If Dreamweaver has an actual way of showing appropriate code coloring I can't find it. If I can't get an answer to this I'm returning the product and going back to GoLive CS2 or some other editor like Notepad++, which by the way understands code coloring better than Dreamweaver.

Also, for the devs who design Dreamweaver. The functionality for creating a custom interface that supposedly allows you to change code coloring is terrible. The preference window that you create the custom interface in works fine. However, after you've created a custom interface, applied it, close Dreamweaver and then open it again, it takes a couple minutes for Dreamweaver to open. Where as before I created the custom interface it opened in a matter of seconds. At this point I haven't even made changes to the custom interface, all I did was create it and apply it. Technically at this point it is a replication of the Dark theme. I have a brand new Windows 10 PC with an SSD and 16 GB of RAM. There is zero reason why a program should take this long just to open. Also, now that I've created the custom theme, deleted it, and switched back to the dark theme, it still takes a couple minutes for Dreamweaver to open. Thanks for breaking my software that I spent $850+ dollars on. As an IT Admin, why should I ever purchase anything from you again?

Please provide some answers/fixes so I don't have to switch back to GoLive CS2. I want to use Dreamweaver, but if it's unusable then that will be impossible.

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    Correct answer NicCrockett

    If anyone cares to vote this up on the bug community here's the link: Color Coding – Adobe Dreamweaver CC: Feature Ideas

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    K
    Community Manager
    Kratika AgarwalCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    May 7, 2020

    Hello,

    We have started working on “Code Coloring Customization” improvements by adding support for customization of generic and language specific colors and the changes are available in our latest Prerelease drop.

    With this improvement you will be able to customize Code Colors in Dreamweaver Preferences --> Interface window.

     

    Please join Dreamweaver beta program from below link and try out the feature.

    https://www.adobeprerelease.com/beta/9EB451B5-D2E8-46E5-AFA2-78C85442FFA2/participate/CD0C95AA-6274-4001-FC50-A58A26BE87BE

     

    Thanks

    Dreamweaver Team

    K
    Community Manager
    Kratika AgarwalCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    June 28, 2020

    Hi All,

     

    We have started working on “Code Color Customization” improvements by adding support for customization of generic and language specific colors.


    We have further stabilized the code coloring feature in our latest Prerelease build 15333.

    
You can refer to below thread for more details on code coloring customization improvements.
https://forums.adobeprerelease.com/dwalpha/discussion/467/dreamweaver-build-15333-is-now-available#latest

     

    Please join Dreamweaver beta program from below link and try out the feature.

    https://www.adobeprerelease.com/beta/9EB451B5-D2E8-46E5-AFA2-78C85442FFA2/participate/CD0C95AA-6274-...

     

    Please go ahead and try out the build and let inflow your thoughts/suggestions. Looking forward to your valuable feedback.

     

    Thanks

    
Dreamweaver Team

    NicCrockett
    NicCrockettAuthorCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    February 1, 2017

    If anyone cares to vote this up on the bug community here's the link: Color Coding – Adobe Dreamweaver CC: Feature Ideas

    O
    osgood_
    Legend
    January 31, 2017

    Nick Crockett wrote:

    I switched from Adobe GoLive CS2 to Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2017. Yes, I know that's a big jump. Dreamweaver CC 2017 is the dumbest program for understanding and displaying code colors in the interface. GoLive CS2 could understand code coloring without any preference changes and it is more than a decade older than Dreamweaver CC 2017. I am honestly thinking about switching back to GoLive CS2 just so I can read the code. I have tried everything I can find online about changing code coloring. Including Adobe's own, incomplete, how to on changing code colors (Learn how you can customize the colors of your code elements in Dreamweaver. ). I say incomplete because the description on how to change "Customize code colors for mixed code files" doesn't actually tell you how to change colors for all file types. On top of that, it doesn't actually change the colors for the coding languages mixed in the same file. It did change some coloring, but I have ASP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and JQuery all mixed up in one file. If Dreamweaver has an actual way of showing appropriate code coloring I can't find it. If I can't get an answer to this I'm returning the product and going back to GoLive CS2 or some other editor like Notepad++, which by the way understands code coloring better than Dreamweaver.

    Also, for the devs who design Dreamweaver. The functionality for creating a custom interface that supposedly allows you to change code coloring is terrible. The preference window that you create the custom interface in works fine. However, after you've created a custom interface, applied it, close Dreamweaver and then open it again, it takes a couple minutes for Dreamweaver to open. Where as before I created the custom interface it opened in a matter of seconds. At this point I haven't even made changes to the custom interface, all I did was create it and apply it. Technically at this point it is a replication of the Dark theme. I have a brand new Windows 10 PC with an SSD and 16 GB of RAM. There is zero reason why a program should take this long just to open. Also, now that I've created the custom theme, deleted it, and switched back to the dark theme, it still takes a couple minutes for Dreamweaver to open. Thanks for breaking my software that I spent $850+ dollars on. As an IT Admin, why should I ever purchase anything from you again?

    Please provide some answers/fixes so I don't have to switch back to GoLive CS2. I want to use Dreamweaver, but if it's unusable then that will be impossible.

    Your best best is to try CC2015 or CS6, which are available if you have cloud membership. Those still have the original color coding options available.

    CC 2017 is a huge, huge leap away from the previous versions of DW, some would correctly say in the wrong direction, regarding some aspects of the programme. Personally I think the color coding option is truly awful for a top-of-the-range product. A bit like a kids toy or do-it-yourself if you understand coding, unfortunately 99% of DW users dont.

    There have been a lot of updates to the visual editor, to bring in more up to date options, which can compete with other text edtors out there unfortunately other areas, like the color coding, have been overlooked. Strange as it is by far one of the most important aspects of any coders toolbox. If the colors aint right the rest of the software is useless and less productive. Should have sorted the color options out first Adobe .

      NicCrockett
      NicCrockettAuthor
      Inspiring
      January 31, 2017

      If I can't get this worked out in DW 2017 then I'll try your suggestion of using an older version of DW. Thanks for the tip and I agree that this is a step back. I think it's just plain sad that a web editor like GoLive CS2 that was created in 2005 and a text editor like Notepad++ has outstandingly better code coloring. I hope Adobe sees this post because they need to fire someone and put out an update ASAP.

      Thanks,

      Nick

      pziecina
      pziecina
      Legend
      January 31, 2017

      Nick Crockett wrote:

      I hope Adobe sees this post because they need to fire someone and put out an update ASAP.

      This has been going on since Dw 2017 was released back at the beginning of November.

      The solution Nancy supplied, is the update.

      Nancy OShea
      Community Expert
      Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 31, 2017

      Code Colors:

      < it takes a couple minutes for Dreamweaver to open.>

      You can turn off Automatic Sync in your Preferences.  See screenshot. 

      Nancy

      Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
      NicCrockett
      NicCrockettAuthor
      Inspiring
      January 31, 2017

      Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately it was basically useless.

      Opening Delay:

      I only had Enable Automatic Sync turned on and when I turned it off it didn't help the situation.

      Color Coding:

      Using the article I posted and the article you posted I was able to turn all Javascript code white. Yay for a useless code coloring system. Neither article specifies what to use for all coding languages (i.e. ASP). They also don't tell you how to color code the different types of elements. Yes, I did see the example for PHP string and comment. However, as the article says I'd have to do a lot of research to figure out every element to color code. I'm not going to spend the next several months researching all of the elements for all the coding languages I use. To be perfectly honest, this system is ludicrous and the designers at Adobe that implemented it should be fired.

      I do appreciate the help. If you have anymore suggestions I'm all ears.

      Thanks,

      Nick

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