Inconsistence between code completition font color

[davidbuzatto]

I'm postponing to migrate to new versions of NetBeans... My production version is 8.2 and Darcula works pretty well in it. Now with the 11.1 version, I decided to start using it daily, but Darcula has some GUI inconsistences ... The one that is disturbing a lot is the black color of the font in the code completion dialog. There's an image in the link below showing this issue.

https://ibb.co/C8BbnTZ

[AlexFalappa]

It works for me (NB11.1 and NBDarcula 1.6).

You can try to see if the following steps fix the thing for you:

1. Open Tools > Options dialog
2. Change to Fonts & Colors tab
3. Click the Restore button (top right)

This will perform a "reset to factory settings" and reload the color palettes defined in the look and feel. It happened to me in the past, especially when changing look and feels and restarting, that some of the colors in the color palette of the previous look and feel remained after restart.

[davidbuzatto]

Hi Alex!

Unfortunately this didn't work for me. The class members continues being rendered in black. I tried to find some option to change it manually, but I couldn't.

Thanks for your help.

[AlexFalappa]

@davidbuzatto also try starting with an empty userdir.

Your userdir is indicated in the About dialog, try deleting or moving it elsewhere.

[davidbuzatto]

@AlexFalappa unfortunately it is not the problem. It seems that the color used to render these elements has changed or doesn't exist anymore in versions after 8.2. Thanks for your help.

[Saljack]

I have the same problem with AdoptOpenJDK 13. It works with AdoptOpenJDK 11.

[orionf22]

I am also having this issue. Restoring the theme did not work, nor did deleting the userdir. Is it possible to expose these color options via a built-in editor or even an editable file (XML, CSS, etc)?

[Chris2011]

Hey @orionf22 please have a look into the latest version of Apache NetBeans 11.3 beta 2. There we have a new look and feel called flatLaF which has a light and a dark mode which was inspired by darcula. There is no need to use this plugin anymore :)

[josephlcc319]

Hi, I am experiencing the same issue with my netbeans ide 16, is there any ways to solve this problem?

[Chris2011]

hey @josephlcc319 also for you, if possible, please have a look into the native implemented FlatLaF of NetBeans. Dark FlatLaF covers the darcula theme quite well. As you can see the latest version and commit is now more than 5 years old and there is no real progress here anymore. The native FlatLaf, which is very nice, is more up to date and still maintained: https://www.formdev.com/flatlaf/ No need to install it, it is there out of the box.