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.
I use Visual Studio 2017 with the dark theme, and the blue bar at the bottom (or orange when you’re debugging) is a nice way to look up for some information (like source control status, background tasks, etc). VScode themes: Visual Studio Code is a free IDE built for developing and debugging web applications. It has integrated Git control & terminal. It has a very large plugin system that probably rivals the Sublime quality and surpasses it for web language. Visual Studio for Mac – Light Theme New welcome screen of the Visual Studio for Mac (which we have just launched). See the dark theme of the same thing. See the dark theme. The Visual Studio theme options are Light, Blue, and Dark. This book uses the Light theme. The Dark theme provides a high-contrast visual theme (black background with brighter text). The Blue theme looks similar to prior versions of Visual Studio. Previously, VS Code menus and dialogs would show with the default light theme, even if macOS was running in dark theme. Now, all native UI elements will show with the Dark Mode if enabled.
Mac mini for home recording studio. 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
/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:
Yamaha studio manager for mac. 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.
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:Free recording studio for mac. 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).
TrojanTrojan
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.
stimpy77stimpy77
You can press alt+shift+print screen and it will change all colors of windows to dark including Notepad++.
Esko studio for mac. 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: