diff --git a/src/ui/XMLCommProtocolWidget.cc b/src/ui/XMLCommProtocolWidget.cc
index 294a4862c3e093cd98039d7deb3490d7bde2f53b..9688cc77caad11740a65dcbe23a4f00e43bcf902 100644
--- a/src/ui/XMLCommProtocolWidget.cc
+++ b/src/ui/XMLCommProtocolWidget.cc
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ XMLCommProtocolWidget::XMLCommProtocolWidget(QWidget *parent) :
 {
     m_ui->setupUi(this);
 
-    // Now set syntax highlighter
-    //highlighter = new MAVLinkSyntaxHighlighter(m_ui->xmlTextView->document());
-
     connect(m_ui->selectFileButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(selectXMLFile()));
     connect(m_ui->selectOutputButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(selectOutputDirectory()));
     connect(m_ui->generateButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(generate()));
     connect(m_ui->saveButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), this, SLOT(save()));
+
+    // Make sure text background is white
+    m_ui->xmlTextView->setStyleSheet("QGCMAVLinkTextEdit { background-color: #FFFFFF; }");
 }
 
 void XMLCommProtocolWidget::selectXMLFile()
@@ -128,7 +128,11 @@ void XMLCommProtocolWidget::generate()
     m_ui->compileLog->clear();
 
     // Check XML validity
-    if (!m_ui->xmlTextView->syntaxcheck()) return;
+    if (!m_ui->xmlTextView->syntaxcheck())
+    {
+        // Syntax check already gives output
+        return;
+    }
 
     MAVLinkXMLParser* parser = new MAVLinkXMLParser(m_ui->fileNameLabel->text().trimmed(), m_ui->outputDirNameLabel->text().trimmed());
     connect(parser, SIGNAL(parseState(QString)), m_ui->compileLog, SLOT(appendHtml(QString)));
diff --git a/src/ui/mavlink/QGCMAVLinkTextEdit.cc b/src/ui/mavlink/QGCMAVLinkTextEdit.cc
index f3f2172c7aad2fa55187d3fb29de0ed30f9484df..887f1c3584d77f511c2c86e1cdcefa4d0cd1a41d 100644
--- a/src/ui/mavlink/QGCMAVLinkTextEdit.cc
+++ b/src/ui/mavlink/QGCMAVLinkTextEdit.cc
@@ -50,32 +50,32 @@ void QGCMAVLinkTextEdit::setPlainText( const QString txt )
 
 bool QGCMAVLinkTextEdit::syntaxcheck()
 {
-    bool error = false;
+    bool noError = true;
     if (text().size() > 0 ) {
         QString errorStr;
         int errorLine, errorColumn;
         QDomDocument doc;
         if (!doc.setContent(text(),false, &errorStr, &errorLine, &errorColumn)) {
             //////return doc.toString(5);
-            QMessageBox::information(0, tr("Found xml error"),tr("Check line %1 column %2 on string \"%3\"!")
+            QMessageBox::critical(0, tr("Found xml error"),tr("Check line %1 column %2 on string \"%3\"!")
                                      .arg(errorLine - 1)
                                      .arg(errorColumn - 1)
                                      .arg(errorStr));
-            error = true;
+            noError = false;
 
             // FIXME Mark line
             if (errorLine >= 0 ) {
 
             }
         } else {
-            QMessageBox::information(0, tr("XML valid."),tr("All tag are valid size %1.").arg(text().size()));
+            QMessageBox::information(0, tr("XML valid."),tr("All tags are valid. Document size is %1 characters.").arg(text().size()));
             setPlainText(doc.toString(5));
         }
     } else {
         QMessageBox::information(0, tr("XML not found!"),tr("Null size xml document!"));
-        error = true;
+        noError = false;
     }
-	return error;
+        return noError;
 }
 
 void QGCMAVLinkTextEdit::contextMenuEvent ( QContextMenuEvent * e )