How to color certain keywords?

[Purity]

Ello everyone,

I believe I've read it in an article once but cant find it anymore. How do I colour certain specified keywords in vc++ 6.0 (like int , float , new) blue?

I'm 100% sure that its possible, but searching for colo(u)ring keywords didnt give me any results.

I hope that any of you can help me out,

Jules

[hk_mp5kpdw]

Tools->Options->Format Tab

Select "keyword" from the Colors text box and then select your Foreground/Background colors from the respective boxes below.

Edit: On mine, keywords are colored blue by default when you install the IDE. Did someone turn yours off?

[Puppis]

Hi, for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 the file you want to create or modify is
\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE\usertype.dat

[Purity]

All keywords are indeed coloured blue, but I'd like to add a couple of custom keywords. That menu unfortunately doesnt allow me to add new keywords.

I've tried searching for a usertype.dat file but it isnt there with vs6.0.


Thanks for the help so far though.

[hk_mp5kpdw]

In that case, Puppis' solution is closer to what you want. I created a file like that a few months ago to add a few keywords. On my machine the file exists under the \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin directory. If the file does not exist for you then you simply need to create it using any text editor, i.e. NotePad, and name it UserType.Dat. My file looks like this:

deque
list
map
multimap
multiset
queue
set
stack
string
vector

You will have to shutdown/restart the IDE if it is up and running while you are doing all of this.

[Purity]

Thank you very much that did the trick, much appreciated.