About xcode console text color and background

Question

Cannot change text color of xcode color output despite trying to use the "xcode preference" dialogue box. Please help ...

The above is a screen shot of the preference dialogue window. Somehow, the option for changing the console output does not seem to be showing up.

Answer 1

Under Debugging >> Fonts & Colors you can set fonts the following way;:

1. Debugger Console Prompt = the color text prompt when breakpointing

2. Debugger Console Input = the color of typed text when breakpointing

3. Executable Standard Output = most of the debug text, you can change the foreground color. This accounts for most of the debugger output text.

There doesn't seem to be a way to change the background color, but you may have more luck with Xcode 4 themes instead of 3.2.x

Here's the working output (minus some redacted info):