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doug24 / ThemeEditor

A basic theme editor for dnGrep
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What are the overall background objects called, in this program?? #2

Closed DerellLicht closed 8 months ago

DerellLicht commented 8 months ago

I want to change the general background color of the controls area... For example, the box that has 'All sizes' radio button in the upper-left corner... Or the larger box that is labeled 'Search in' ... I don't see anything which actually sets those background colors; without that, the themes are not actually effective...

doug24 commented 8 months ago

Yes, it is very poorly named: "GradientBackground".

The original themes use a LinearGradientBrush (which isn't editable in the Theme Editor). You can edit the xaml file and change it to a SolidColorBrush and when you restart the Theme Editor, it will appear and be editable.

<SolidColorBrush x:Key="GradientBackground" po:Freeze="true" Color="#FF221810" />

DerellLicht commented 8 months ago

Yes, it is very poorly named: "GradientBackground".

The original themes use a LinearGradientBrush (which isn't editable in the Theme Editor). You can edit the xaml file and change it to a SolidColorBrush and when you restart the Theme Editor, it will appear and be editable.

<SolidColorBrush x:Key="GradientBackground" po:Freeze="true" Color="#FF221810" />

Excellent!! Thank you so much!! So if I want to change anything else that has a LinearGradientBrush setting, I should first change it to SolidColorBrush, as we did here...

doug24 commented 8 months ago

Yes, they have to be SolidColorBrushes to be editable in the Theme Editor. They you can change them back if you want.

Any brush in the xaml file can be a solid or gradient brush. There are also radial gradient brushes. link

doug24 commented 8 months ago

It is a TreeView, so it uses the TreeView.* settings.

The match lighlights are as you have figured out the Match.* settings.

The preview window that shows the whole file is AvalonEdit.*

The circular buttons with an ^ or v arrow are Expanders

The Bookmarks dialog has a DataGrid control, which isn't in the Theme Editor.

DerellLicht commented 8 months ago

It is a TreeView, so it uses the TreeView.* settings.

The match lighlights are as you have figured out the Match.* settings.

The preview window that shows the whole file is AvalonEdit.*

The circular buttons with an ^ or v arrow are Expanders

The Bookmarks dialog has a DataGrid control, which isn't in the Theme Editor.

Yeah, sorry about that... I should have recognized the TreeView control, I've used them in my own C++ programs... Most of the others I recognize, but thank you for pointing out the Bookmarks dialog; I was wondering what DataGrid was!!

Okay, I think I have these settings clear now...