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I like the look of Sublime Text 2 but I prefer using Notepad++ as my default text editor. Is there a way to make the notepad++ application itself dark? More specifically, I would like to change the region highlighted in red to a dark background with a light grey text.
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I am on Win 8 (x64).
Thanks in advance!
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The themes, as you guessed, can't do this (they only handle what's in the text editing window). To change the colors you'll have to change color values in the source code (download from the site or GitHub).
- Extract the file
- Find the elements whose color you'd like to change, and change them. All colors I've seen are denoted RGB(xx,xx,xx)
- Rebuild (see /readmeFirst.txt once you've extracted)
I've just glanced at these files, but I'm definitely going to work at this a little tomorrow and I don't mind giving you my results once I've solved it.
Anyway, what I've seen at a glance is that you'll want to look in
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- /PowerEditor/src/ScitillaComponent/DocTabView (I think)
- /PowerEditor/src/WinControls/TabBar
- /PowerEditor/src/WinControls/ToolBar
That's all I noticed that might be of interest so far, but again, I'll look at it more tomorrow and get back to you.
Edit: the official makefile will give some errors, because /PowerEditor/src/Parameters.h references files incorrectly. Here are the two I fixed so far:
Change those lines in Parameters.h to what I've written to deal with them. Don't worry about the warnings ('extra tokens after #endif') - they're just comments.
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Edit 2: I'm using VS2012, in which the build process results in numerous errors. I won't post them here unless someone eventually asks about them, in which case I'm happy to do so. I should have a working build up soon!
Edit 3: It seems Notepad++'s provided VS project file was created with an earlier version of Visual Studio, and in updating the files, Visual Studio 2012 creates many problems, so if you go that route, use VS2010.
Edit 4: I didn't make it obvious in Edit 3, but I gave up after realizing just how difficult it was going to be to get around the VS errors. I imagine the code has changed significantly since I wrote this answer as well; unfortunately I didn't note the version, but I'm sure it was the latest available at time of writing this answer, which, according to 'All versions', was probably either 6.4.1 or 6.4.2. However, I hope this is a useful starting point for anyone else who reads (this answer has received consistent attention since writing).
Use WindowBlinds from Stardock . It supports global skinning for all apps in Windows but I believe you can also give it special instructions for skinning individual apps.
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You can press alt+shift+print screen and it will change all colors of windows to dark including Notepad++.
You can change the tab colors in notepad++ and it changes the tab writing and the tab background and perhaps the window I don't know.
I have written a Notepad++ dark theme generator here with 700 ready made high contrast Notepad++ themes to download:
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Requirements:
- This style is based on Monaco font (https://github.com/todylu/monaco.ttf).
- Notepad++, of course.
Installation:
Copy the Material-Dark.xml file to '%APPDATA%Notepad++themes' and in a portable installation to '%Notepad++%themes'.
Or simply import it to Notepad++ by going to Menu -> Settings -> Import -> Import Style theme(s) option.
Important note:
Simply downloading the xml file only from GitHub doesn't work, because the file downloaded this way is not a valid xml.You have to:
- download the whole project
- extract the xml file and copy it in C:UsersAppDataRoamingNotepad++themes
- restart Notepad and enable the theme