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I'd love if Textpad had more than one built in colorscheme.

I *want* textpad to have a black background and light text. However, there are 168 (by my count) places I'd have to change things to get everything to be usefully colored while changing the background color to something dark.

Would it be possible to have a built-in colorscheme function? That is, allow me to set the default to dark backgrounds, as opposed to light backgrounds?

Hi talldean,

I like dark backgrounds and light text colors, just like you.
I think that's already implemented.

Go to the color section of your desired syntax, reset the colors.
The first element ("background"/"Fensterhintergrund") controls the background color for *ALL* elements, as far as you do not change the background of an element manually (which is normally not necessary at all)

cheers
joerg

joerg wrote:Hi talldean,

I like dark backgrounds and light text colors, just like you.
I think that's already implemented.

Go to the color section of your desired syntax, reset the colors.
The first element ("background"/"Fensterhintergrund") controls the background color for *ALL* elements, as far as you do not change the background of an element manually (which is normally not necessary at all)

Either I misspoke, or you misunderstood; odds are, I misspoke.

I know that you can change the background color to dark, per document class, with one change.

However, go to that screen. Set the background color to 'black'. Everything else gets *really* ugly. None of the other colors were chosen to work on a dark background, and th whole thing looks painfully bad. Would like a way to automatically go from a complete light-themed colorscheme to a complete dark-themed colorscheme.

Ok, now I got you

Yes, that would be a nice feature.
What I do in this case is to export the registry key which holds the color inforrmation after I set all elements to the correct color.
If you have your set of registry files once a while, you are able to switch between them with a doubleclick on the file...

greetz

I agree with the OP.
I like the light on dark scheme like some
of the defaults in the unix editors. It would be
great if it was a 1 button thing rather than needing
to recustomize the whole syntax definition (yes, i am
too lazy to do it for ALL the definitions). It would be
good to have it part of the whole appearance of
TextPad, so all the windows and sidebars would be
light on dark.