How to change overview rule background color in Eclipse 3.4.0.I20080617-2000 (vertical bar on right of editing window with some annotations) ?
General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations allows only to change colors of marks itself not background of whole bar.
It looks like my web searching skills are getting weaker since I cannot find it anywhere ...
you can only change the color for the occurrence marking inside the editor (General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations). The color in the overview ruler is computed from that color.
I just tried General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations (or CTRL+1 , type 'Annotations') mentionned by MysticSlayer:
By clicking on 'Occurrences', the color defined here is related to the occurrence marking inside the editor AND on the vertical bar on right of editing window (meaning the color of the little dashes displayed on vertical bar to mark the occurrences within the code, not the background color of the vertical bar itself).
I have the same problem as Michal - this seems to be non-customisable.
I have trouble seeing some of the annotation marks in the overview ruler due to Vista's lighter colouring. You can change the colour of the marks, but the bar itself doesn't change colour.
It looks like the only way to change it is to change the system colours for all windows.
It seams to work for me. The only thing to do is to "restart" Eclipse after your change. The overview ruler and the editor will display the selected color