mike-ward
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3 years ago Admittedly, the UI is a something of a leaky abstraction. Visual Studio doesn't let me color the output lines directly. In fact, the only thing the extension can do is add a classification type to an output line. Classifications can have attributes like colors and font weights. Even more annoying is a line can have multiple classifications and often do. When that happens, VS decides which classifications to apply and which ones to ignore.
In addition, property grids while useful and convenient have their limitations.
I could combine the two ideas UI-wise but l would have to abandon property grids and write a custom interface. I'm way too lazy to do that :)
If you need more classifications, I can add more.
It's unfortunate from a user viewpoint that the colors are defined seperately than the filters. It would be nice to assign a color directly to a regex filter rather than a color slot in a list with a constrained size. Alternatively more custom color slots would be useful.