John,
Yes, the find dialog is one I have not found out how to adjust that yet. <sad face> I am willing to be it is NOT using the settings inside of eclipse.
I only had to adjust the black background on the Palette. Then on the ILERPGSql parser, I only had to adjust the Primary color. The
Back-ground color were changed when I updated the palette. So, for me, a user of RDI for over 12-years, it was not hard for me. Being experienced, it only took me about 5-minutes.
I first tried the dark theme on the Old RDI using Luna, and the dark theme was terrible. The little triangle on the remote explorer were too dark. Eclipse Neon greatly approve the dark theme, which I am very glad to get a "decent" dark theme with some customization.
Here is a snapshot on dark theme in eclipse, as a example:
https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2017/february/images/darkest-dark.png
I had to change the indent color here:
(Short cut key: Ctrl+shift+O=Show indentation)
windows>preference>Remote Systems>Remote system LPEX Editor>IBM I Parser
I change the "Show Block Nesting" to a light color, since my back-ground is now black.
I also had to change my color for the break point line here:
windows>preferences>General>Editors>text Editors
"Debug Current Instruction Pointer", I happen to use Dashed Box color Red...
Great thing about eclipse is it highly customizable. The bad thing is finding all the settings in eclipse.
Most of my co-workers who use a dark-theme, only use it for LPEX only... They keep the BRIGHT-WHITE for the other screens.
So, it does take a lot of customization. Which takes time and a lot of trial and error.
PS. This weekend, I will create a Text file for my Dark theme to share. You are right, it will be good to document it for others, and also for myself. Maybe I can put it on Wiki, here:
http://wiki.midrange.com
Your updates make it better! --> Thanks Buck! :)
I know wiki is updatable, but I haven't ever done that before. Hopefully, I can figure that out. Nothing else, I could cut & paste my instructions in text format for a "start"... Not "perfect", but a "start"... Then I will post my start this weekend, and go from there...
Great Suggestion John! Appreciate it!
PS. I notice on eclipse neon, they have change their Find/change dialog complete different! So on a dark theme it is the same as the LPEX find and replace.
-Ken Killian-
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From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2018 6:30 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Dark theme (was: RSE perspective won't reset)
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 1:53 PM, Ken Killian <kkillian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are many little updates you have to do for nice "Dark-Theme".
For a start only, Here is how you get the LPEX edit to be DARK:
1.) >Window>Preferences>LPEX Editor>Appearance
* Choose Palette "Black"
* change the background color to black for each one.
Except for the cursor! <Hint Hint>
https://imgur.com/a/RlIcQ
How long ago did you have to adjust the background color for each element? I just trial-installed 9.6.0.1 and you'll be glad to know that the black palette LPEX defaults were quite reasonable as-is.
I had to do some other changes too...
I had to change General Appearance & annotations & some other colors.
Have you been able to fix the find-replace dialog which overlays the bottom of LPEX? The options are practically invisible in Dark theme.
Or do you never change those options so it doesn't matter? Or do you use some other search facility? (iSphere maybe?)
I wish I could export & share. It is not perfect, I am still adjusting...
Well, there may not be uploadable themes (yet), but you can still share your settings in "longhand" form by writing them out in words in a blog post or GitHub repo or wiki or something. And then you can update it as you continue to tweak your environment.
Yeah, it would be a little tedious for you to write it out, and for other users to manually adjust their settings according to your instructions, but it would still be better to have them all in one place than for everyone (including possibly yourself!) to have to keep rediscovering them all, over and over again.
John Y.
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