_TOP_ Download Arduino Theme
Marilou Schuemann
So I finally succumbed to installing version 2, in my new PC. After using the default theme for a month, I decided to take a look at the other choices in the dropdown. Now I can't revert to it because it's disappeared from the dropdown list! I can't remember what it was called, only that it was a dark one and said it was deprecated (so why did it come with my recent install?)
What's really frustrating is that none of the three remaining theme choices highlight the special substitution codes in strings used by functions such as sprintf and snprintf (I don't know the technical term for these, but I mean the %d, %c, %s, etc.) The old theme highlighted them beautifully (in cyan standing out among the dark orange of the other characters in the strings). I have sketches with some fairly large strings in them (several thousand characters) and searching through them to find the characters to be substituted by variables is now painfully slow. Seems a retrograde step not to have that in any of the supplied themes.
I know there are lots of themes that can be downloaded and installed but, to save me hours of hunting through them and testing them, I wondered if some kind soul actually knows of a theme that highlights these characters. The demo code used to show off any of the themes I did look at didn't include any examples with the embedded characters of which I speak.
After using the default theme for a month, I decided to take a look at the other choices in the dropdown. Now I can't revert to it because it's disappeared from the dropdown list! I can't remember what it was called, only that it was a dark one and said it was deprecated (so why did it come with my recent install?)
Are you certain it was the default? If so, there must be a bug in Arduino IDE because it should use only the 'Light" or "Dark" theme by default (selected according to your operating system theme). The deprecated themes were only ever selected by the user; not as a default setting.
Starting from Arduino IDE 2.1.0, the deprecated themes are no longer offered in the "Theme" menu of the Arduino IDE's preferences. However, they can still be selected using Arduino IDE's advanced settings. I'll provide instructions:
Please note the "Dark (Theia)" and "Light (Theia)" themes offered via the advanced setting are deprecated. Arduino does not maintain or support these themes and they could be removed completely from Arduino IDE in a future release.
Arduino IDE is built on the Eclipse Theia IDE framework, which allows it to use VS Code themes. A VS Code theme roughly equivalent to the "Dark (Theia)" theme you like is available.
The advantage of this approach is that you are not depending on a deprecated built-in theme that might be removed from Arduino IDE in a future release. The ability to install 3rd party themes in Arduino IDE is officially supported by Arduino.
The "Dark (Theia)" theme is based on the "Dark+ (default dark)" VS Code theme. Since it is built in to VS Code, this specific theme is not available in a standalone extension form for download from the VS Code Marketplace. However, there are quite a few 3rd party themes based on the "Dark+ (default dark)" theme there so I think you'll be able to find one to your liking
Yes. It was a new PC and I never installed v1 on it. However I did update from v2.0.something to v2.1.0 shortly after I finished setting up my new PC. It has a choice of three themes right now: Light, Dark and High Contrast ... had four until I switched from the deprecated one.
You are welcome. I'm glad you are back to your preferred theming. I think this solution is likely to continue working for some time to come because there are some technical difficulties to removing the deprecated themes and the current approach of not offering them via the preferences dialog is adequate for our purposes.
Same regex on the same text in regexr.com finds all of them.
Edit: Looks like it found one more that I missed - which drives home the point about how difficult it is to not have these highlighted in the default theme.
I've made a few changes to this sketch (and brought back my helpful theme) since I posted the screenshots, but the snippet below is unchanged, except token in the Set-Cookie data has been renamed pkey and token[p - 1] is now pKey[p]. The weird thing is that the search for regular expression %[dsc] now highlights and finds all four %d in the snippet. I'm not sure what's going on here but I wouldn't have trusted myself if I didn't have the screenshot as evidence that, a few hours ago, it definitely missed out the %d in pb=%d2, pb=%d3 and pb=%d4 but a few lines later found token=%d; (Highlighting's a bit hard to see but the ones it did find were highlighted with a brown background.)
You need to create a themes folder in the folder where your projects are (the one that appears in the preferences section) and put inside it the theme in a zip file. After restarting it will appear as a new theme in the combobox themes.
Note that there is already a "theme" folder here. Personally, I rename this folder something along the lines of "default_theme" just so I have the original theme in case I want to revert back to it. After renaming the existing theme folder (if you choose to do so), paste the "theme" folder you downloaded. After this folder is successfully copied, the theme should be applied the next time you start the IDE.
Before you get to changing your themes in Arduino, you should update the software to its latest version. This way your libraries will remain compatible with the new UI appearance. As soon as you open the application in Administrator mode, it will prompt you to go for an update.
We discussed above the detailed procedure of how to change the default theme, colors, and font scheme for Arduino IDE. Here is a small yet interesting list. There are many useful themes you can find on websites other than GitHub as well.
If you have an installed Arduino IDE folder in Windows 10/11, you can search for them using the Windows search button on top. You will find all the available themes saved in .JSON format, a JavaScript extension.
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This last summer I acquired a wrecked Space Shuttle with the hopes of turning it into a custom re-theme.... well I ended up restoring it... so at that point I realized it would be impossible for me to re-theme something... no matter how wrecked I would just end up trying to restore it. The process was a great introduction to the kids in the engineering lab at our local community college so I figured a ground up build would would also be an excellent fit.
So as a project for the lab, I wanted to include the interests of the kids (as well as my own). Projects they work on include Arduino based robotics, apps, and projects in Unity. While thinking about how to incorporate some these interests I came across ThatOneDude's build ( -home-arduinoraspberry-pi-rebuild ) which is right down the line and as for Unity I had already been following this awesome project: -one-more-wizard-blocks. Finally, I came across Ben Heck's mini pinball build using an Arduino as the controller.
cool project though the programming and board is beyond me, I to would love to do a fifth element pin as well, great theme for a pin, and recently got a movie resin taxi model which I want to model off and reduce in size for the game
really!, as a user of unity was about to ask if you would know how to connect that arduino via usb or bluetooth to a Unity app, and just get to read that you can use Unity with the missionpinball MPF, that's quite interesting!
in my ideas to make a pinball maker/game always was thinking how cool would be to make something that could be used in the real world too, like... you would use the app to make the logic in a simulated pinball and later could use the same logic and backbox animations etc in a real machine. I knew it was somehow possible because saw some examples of unity+arduino and a video of a pinball running its graphics with unity, but all this now make it seem like it could be even more accesible than I thought. great stuff guys!
We are glad to share the news that the Visual Studio Code Extension for Arduino has been open sourced on GitHub.com at -arduino! This is a great team effort to provide a good development experience for Arduino developers.
Comments in the Arduino editor are hard to read because the color is light grey, I wonder why this color is still being used. This color can't be changed as usual in the preference.txt file, but has to be set in the theme.txt file, which can be found at this location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\lib\theme\
explore edge lit acrylic and LED patterns
make something interesting to look at
make art for my gallery show
use the raw material inventory on hand which included a ton of water edge acrylic
and in the case of the first one, make something that fits within the theme of the art show being run by the town hall. (that worked)