Custom highlight with ScintillaNET

Question

in my winforms application I would create a custom syntax highlight, so I made this xml:

<ScintillaNET>
  <Language Name="default">
    <Styles>
      <Style Name="Default" FontName="Consolas"/>
    </Styles>
  </Language>

  <Language Name="customSql">
    <Lexer LineCommentPrefix="--" StreamCommentPrefix="/* " StreamCommentSuffix=" /*" LexerName="customSql" >
      <Keywords List="0">
        Data Source Initial Catalog User Id Password Database Server Trusted_Connection
        Integrated Security Network Library User Instance AttachDbFilename Failover Partner
        Asynchronous Processing Uid Pwd Provider SSPI
      </Keywords>
    </Lexer>

    <Styles>
      <Sytle Name="CHARACTER" ForeColor="Black"/>
      <Sytle Name="NUMBER" ForeColor="Red" />
    </Styles>
  </Language>
</ScintillaNET>

Looks fine for me. In my application I set the language and further properties as:

myC.ConfigurationManager.Language = "customSql";
myC.ConfigurationManager.CustomLocation = Global.Path + @"Resources\ScintillaNET.xml";
myC.ConfigurationManager.Configure();

I cannot figure why this still doesn't work. I have no exception, simply the text remain black. Any hints?

Answer 1

Perhaps because you set the ForeColor to Black, but never set the BackColor to something other than black?