Dark Mode theme, Focus mode and Typewriter Scroll.

[favour bede]

Hey Simon, hope you're safe?

I'm just curious as to if anyone has gotten a dark Mode / theme of some sort.

Secondly, are there any chances of getting Focus mode and Typewriter Scroll in the editor?.

NB: Focus mode is a feature that greys out all the other part of the document apart from the paragraph or settings you're typing on to keep you in your flow and stop you from getting distracted.

Typewriter Scroll on the other hand centres the cursor around the vertical centre of the screen so that you don't have to bend your neck looking at the bottom of the screen for hours if you're typing a long document.

What do you think of these? And I hope you got the ideas? You can check out jotterpad and is writer on Android for clarity. They have these features.

[Simon Haynes]

Hi

yWriter got a theme engine a couple of months ago, and I put together a dark mode and included it.

Not heard of the other two modes, to be honest.  The microsoft richtextbox doesn't have support for those, alas.

Cheers

Simon

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[Simon Haynes]

PS all safe here, as I live in Western Australia.  We haven't had a Covid case in the community since March.  Hope everyone else is keeping the disease at armslength!

Cheers

Simon

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[richclearpc]

Typewriter scrolling brings the cursor position to the centre of the editing screen as you hit return or as you type the line automatically drops to the line below. It's a neat way of not having to constantly scroll the work up from the bottom of the page all of the time. 

Perhaps a function that you would consider adding Simon?

[Simon Haynes]

Unfortunately I'm limited by the controls Microsoft supplies with their programming language.  If the control doesn't support something, then adding it often involves intercepting Windows messages and the like.

For example, in order to add theming to the tabbed dialog boxes, I had to create a new control based on the original. Since then, about twenty percent of the times I load my project the tabbed dialog boxes (and everything inside them) have simply disappeared without warning. This means reverting to a recent backup, which is annoying.

(I also did something similar with listboxes, to stop them flickering.)

Any time you paint outside the lines, something usually breaks...

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[pat]

Sounds like something a web app like Writer by BigHugeLabs. They have dark mode (default?) then copy paste from there into yWriter.

[James Earp]

Been with you since Y4. I see the theme changer but cannot for the life of me find the dark mode option. I tried going through and changing every setting BG individually but am still staring at bars of white that won't darken. I write at night so white burns me lol. You mentioned that there are themes saved somewhere around here, is that what I need to do is find one already made and copy/save it?

[Simon Haynes]

Hi

Click Dark then Load (see image).  If you don't see anything in the list, click Refresh. If that still doesn't show anything, make sure you're using the most recent yWriter7. (I think this is in yWriter6 beta, but if you're using that it's possible I forgot to include the schemes in the installer.)

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[Todd Carnes]

I just did the automatic update to 7.1.1.6 and the themes are not listed.

Refresh doesn't work either.

Todd

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[Simon Haynes]

I'll check to see whether I'm including them with the program.

One possibility is that they're going into the program folder, but yWriter expects to find them here:

C:\Users\(USERNAME)\AppData\Roaming\Spacejock Software\yWriter7\Themes

I've attached the Dark and Grey themes, which can be copied into that location:

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[Todd Carnes]

I install my all programs to the D: drive. You shouldn't assume everyone
accepts the default options. :)

[Todd Carnes]

For the record, I looked in that directory and there is only one file there called. yWriterTheme.SJTheme.

I will copy your attachments there and see what happens.

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[Simon Haynes]

That's not the program folder I supplied, it's the user's roaming folder for things like settings, etc. (If someone's moved that to another drive, I'm guessing they know enough to edit the path I provided.)

I'm just updating the Theme code so that when the form is opened, the default themes are copied from the program folder to the roaming folder - if those same files don't already exist.

This is what I do with the dictionary files, now that they're included with the program.

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[Todd Carnes]

Copying the files to that directory worked.

Todd

[Simon Haynes]

Thanks. Just finishing the code changes so that it does it automatically.

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[James Earp]

Simon,

Thanks for your attention to this. I will move those options into the folder, as mine only had the base YwriterTheme as well. (I was using the most recent Y7 as I had just downloaded it from the website).

Cheers!

[James Earp]

Ok so I loaded the predone theme, and it has the same problem as the custom one I built. There isn't an option to change the theme color of the background where the tabs are. This is what the Dark theme looks like applied on my screen.

[slery...@gmail.com]

Thanks for bringing this up, I thought it was just me.

 

Cindy

 

From: ywr...@googlegroups.com <ywr...@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of James Earp
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Subject: Re: [yWriter] Dark Mode theme, Focus mode and Typewriter Scroll.

 

Ok so I loaded the predone theme, and it has the same problem as the custom one I built. There isn't an option to change the theme color of the background where the tabs are. This is what the Dark theme looks like applied on my screen.

On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 2:06:25 PM UTC-6 James Earp wrote:

Simon,

 

Thanks for your attention to this. I will move those options into the folder, as mine only had the base YwriterTheme as well. (I was using the most recent Y7 as I had just downloaded it from the website).

 

Cheers!

On Monday, January 11, 2021 at 10:50:08 PM UTC-6 Simon Haynes wrote:

Thanks. Just finishing the code changes so that it does it automatically.

 

 

On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 at 12:42, Todd Carnes <toddc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Copying the files to that directory worked.

Todd

On 1/11/2021 8:39 PM, Todd Carnes wrote:

For the record, I looked in that directory and there is only one file there called. yWriterTheme.SJTheme.

I will copy your attachments there and see what happens.

On 1/11/2021 8:32 PM, Simon Haynes wrote:

I'll check to see whether I'm including them with the program.

 

One possibility is that they're going into the program folder, but yWriter expects to find them here:

 

C:\Users\(USERNAME)\AppData\Roaming\Spacejock Software\yWriter7\Themes

 

I've attached the Dark and Grey themes, which can be copied into that location:

 

 

On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 at 12:25, Todd Carnes <toddc...@gmail.com> wrote:

I just did the automatic update to 7.1.1.6 and the themes are not listed.

Refresh doesn't work either.

Todd

On 1/11/2021 8:16 PM, Simon Haynes wrote:

Hi

 

Click Dark then Load (see image).  If you don't see anything in the list, click Refresh. If that still doesn't show anything, make sure you're using the most recent yWriter7. (I think this is in yWriter6 beta, but if you're using that it's possible I forgot to include the schemes in the installer.)

 

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[Simon Haynes]

Unfortunately Windows doesn't allow programmers to change the tab/background colours.

I had to use a hack, which involves drawing a box (rectangle) over each tab and then manually drawing the text on top of that.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to change the background to the right of the tabs. Same with the background in the scrollbars and the selection bar itself. I think all of these are derived from the Windows desktop colour scheme, but I might be wrong.

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[slery...@gmail.com]

If it is using the desktop color scheme, then it is using the wrong one. I have mine set to dark mode and every app that allows it is dark and there are no white bars anywhere. All apps are either full dark or they remain their default. I am using yWriter 6 (I even downloaded 7 to see if it made any difference).

 

Cindy

 

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Subject: Re: [yWriter] Dark Mode theme, Focus mode and Typewriter Scroll.

 

Unfortunately Windows doesn't allow programmers to change the tab/background colours.

 

I had to use a hack, which involves drawing a box (rectangle) over each tab and then manually drawing the text on top of that.

 

As far as I can tell, there's no way to change the background to the right of the tabs. Same with the background in the scrollbars and the selection bar itself. I think all of these are derived from the Windows desktop colour scheme, but I might be wrong.

 

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[James Earp]

wow. Well kudos for getting it this good!

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[Bommi]

James wrote: "I write at night so white burns me lol."

Not sure if this is helpful for you, but what about display software (dimmer)?

I use for years and recommend CareUEyes. It has an 'Edit' Preset, which inverts colors (White turns into Black)
https://care-eyes.com/

CareUEyes is free for the next 10 hours
https://sharewareonsale.com/s/free-careueyes-100-discount

Other tools are:

- f.lux - https://justgetflux.com/
- Eye Saver - https://www.eye-saver.net/