New color settings are great, missing some though

The new color settings are great. C2 looks shnazzay.

<img src="http://www.amirai.net/forums/C2color.jpg" border="0" />

However, a few are missing.

<img src="http://www.amirai.net/forums/C2color2.jpg" border="0" />

There are some problems, including going back and forth between dark and light areas is sort of like turning on a bright light in a dark room, and getting the event editor to look right made the event/layout tabs difficult to read.

I don't know how much control you have over the colors - I had to use C2's color preferences, the office 2007 black style and set the colors in windows>personalize>window color and appearance to get it looking like this. However, it would be great if the remaining colors could be set too if possible so we could get a unified appearance like photoshop elements has - even better if we could get it looking like that without having to set the colors of windows itself.

<img src="http://www.amirai.net/forums/psecolors.jpg" border="0" />

Thanks for listening to us and implementing it in the first place! Even as it is, it's significantly improved. :)

Arima Hi I must be missing something.

I thought the idea would be that the colour in the edit box would also be used to display text in the event sheet. I just get black. I have gone through the colour definitions and colours are being used.

<img src="http://i43.tinypic.com/5y9jya.jpg" border="0" />

I'm afraid I don't know what you mean? The new color settings in r131 allow setting the colors for a lot more of the ui. Perhaps you missed its release today?

I think what czar is saying is that he thought the update would allow users to change the colours of the events, like colour-code them however we want: red for testing, green for debug, blue for UI elements, or whatever.

I honestly thought this update was going to bring that; guess I read wrong too.

Arima see how the edit box has the code nicely colour coded? I was expecting the entire event sheet to be coded in the same way. It would certainly help with readability. In my experience thatis how most IDEs work.

I agree with everything

and dark theme = best theme

Also I noticed that the unselected event border colour is the same as:

event number

event branch lines

inactive group text (not disabled)

+add action links

Would be nice to set these separately.. along with having different selected/unselected event text.

speaking of those '+add action links', it doesn't seem to permanently disable them. On loading a new sheet, the first thing I do is disable them, it looks a lot cleaner without them.

Also, you should disable that main 'ribbon' bar.. as you can add the buttons you need straight onto the quick access bar... check it out:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53374990/Pics/c2theme.png

Arima see how the edit box has the code nicely colour coded? I was expecting the entire event sheet to be coded in the same way. It would certainly help with readability. In my experience thatis how most IDEs work.

Ah, I see what you're saying now.

Also I noticed that the unselected event border colour is the same as:

event number

event branch lines

inactive group text (not disabled)

+add action links

Would be nice to set these separately.. along with having different selected/unselected event text.

Agreed.

Also, you should disable that main 'ribbon' bar.. as you can add the buttons you need straight onto the quick access bar...

I do have it disabled, I just opened it up to show its color isn't changeable.

Where do you get the dark theme from ? or do you made it by your own ?

If yes, would you like to spread it? - The one I made looks like s*** -

Just a note some other members have already shared custom theme colors in that topic.

Uhh thanks, but arimas looks much better ;)

Arima see how the edit box has the code nicely colour coded? I was expecting the entire event sheet to be coded in the same way. It would certainly help with readability. In my experience thatis how most IDEs work.

thirded

Darklinki - Posted it here: http://www.scirra.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=68143&PID=419228&title=share-your-c2-themes#419228