Code editor stepping color

Is there any stepping color that can be set for showing which line we are in when stepping.
I always struggle to see what line is the current when stepping code.

You can see here in the picture the first line is where the stepping cursor is at but its really difficult to see, its just tiny tiny bit lighter than the other lines.

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Someone who didn’t plan very well used the same color for the debugger line highlight as the “currently working on this line” highlight which are very different use cases. The only good way to use this is to set a visible “Row Highlight” color and then turn off “Behavior / Highlight current row”.

A good “currently working row” color is an accent of the background, not distracting. The debugger stepper color needs to be quickly noticeable to help you locate the line, intentionally high visibility.

This is a failure of implementation if you ask me (the “currently working row” color was “added” recently). That Xojo isn’t actually dog-fooding anything anymore is extremely evident.

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Thanks that workaround does improve things quite a bit

Looks like Xojo staff are not working in Dark mode.
There are several ‘dark-mode-only-issues’ in Xojo (like this and examples not updated).

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This issue affects both dark and light mode. The color should not be the same value for an accent color (editing) and a highlight color (debugging).

Sorry, I guess I confused it with another one that in light mode you can easily see the difference (even if the color difference is not big) but in dark mode is nearly impossible.