Cursor color in Eclipse 3.5 / Zend Studio 7 on Mac OS X

Question

Do you have any information on how to change the cursor color in Zend Studio 7.0 on Mac OS X?

I ask because I really like dark dark themes. After a few hours, I managed to migrate my favorite theme from TextMate.app. However, my cursor is still black, which is somehow troublesome.

As you can see here - http://twitpic.com/f7ywc - the cursor becomes pretty invisible, right?

Please help me here. Btw - who is interested in the topic?

All the best

Answer 1

I like TextMate and its twilight theme, so this question is dear to me. I think Eclipse for Mac simply cannot set the caret color due to a SWT error.

In the meantime, you can turn on the line backlight so that only the current line has a slightly lighter background. This worked for me:

• Open "Preferences" and open "General" → Editors → Text Editors
• Check the box "Select current row"
• In the scroll list below, uncheck "Current Highlight Line" to a medium-dark gray.

Answer 2

In fact, a much better solution for Eclipse 3.5 is to use the Carbon assembly instead of Cocoa. Cocoa seems to force a black cursor, but I did not have this problem with Carbon. To my surprise, it is also much faster to scroll through code in Carbon.