Change Tools menu look

[ginerjm]

You're seeing two color themes not because it's setting them differently but because "Edit Template"-like windows are not changed. These two areas can't explicitly be controlled with groups.

Aha! Missed this response but now have learned something. You have just said "edit template" windows can not be explicitly controlled with groups. Does that further imply that colorizer styles have no effect on the "edit template" window? And therefore I have no control over it? How does YOUR darktheme color style then control the edit template window and make it darker than what I am used to.

As for swapping color themes out depending on what I am doing, that's a no-go. In my mind it's apparent that the colors of the edit template window are manageable but we somehow cannot communicate how I can do it the 3rd party plugin that I prefer to use.

I wonder how this 3rd party designer could manage to manipulate the main edit window WITHOUT affecting the edit template window?

[chami]

In my mind it's apparent that the colors of the edit template window are manageable but we somehow cannot communicate how I can do it the 3rd party plugin that I prefer to use.

Let's look at it this way:

 

                               +--------------------+----------------------------+
                               |  Lite Bright (LB)  |  Dark Color Theme (DCT)    |
                               +--------------------+----------------------------+
Applies to main editor:        |  Yes               |  Yes (same set of colors)  |
Applies to plugin editor:      |  No                |  Yes (same set of colors)  |
                               +--------------------+----------------------------+

 

Given that LB and DCT formats can't be combined into a single plugin:

A. Pick one or the other, and customize colors to your liking.
B. Keep both, and toggle between them in two clicks.

Hope this helps!

[ginerjm]

What I am trying to ask though is:
Why can the DCT style manage to set different colors for each of my two areas of concern yet you can't tell me how it can be done using any other color style? If I knew how the plugin utilized your system of settings I could then do that to the LB style/plugin, couldn't I? In other words - isn't LB using the same tools of your product to achieve the colorizer style for the Main Editor window that I am comfortable with? And if so, what is it that makes LB able to produce a set of colors for the Main Editor window without setting the colors of the Edit Template window?

[chami]

What I am trying to ask though is:
Why can the DCT style manage to set different colors for each of my two areas of concern yet you can't tell me how it can be done using any other color style?

The thing is though, DCT doesn't do what's assumed in the question...

Why can the DCT style manage to set different colors for each of my two areas of concern...

DCT is not setting different colors for each areas of concern. It's applying the same set of colors to both areas.

I hope this clears things up.

[ginerjm]

I'm sorry - I seem to be trying so hard to explain myself that I'm getting it backwards. Let me try this way.

The DCT theme applies colors to both the Main Edit window and the Edit Template one. That we agree on. The thing that I'm trying to learn about is how it does it. The LB theme/plugin only applies it's variegated color scheme to the Main Edit window and leaves the Edit Template window with a rather plain low-contrast pastel look that needs at least a little work. How does one add some stylizer-xml settings that will only affect THAT window and not the Main window? That is my question.

[chami]

How does one add some stylizer-xml settings that will only affect THAT window and not the Main window?

We seem to be stuck in a loop on this point There's no stylizer-xml setting to do this.

[ginerjm]

How does LB do it then? The background in the main edit window for LB is black but the background for the Edit Templates is white

[chami]

How does LB do it then?

It doesn't.

The background in the main edit window for LB is black but the background for the Edit Templates is white

This is because LB only applies to the main editor. It doesn't apply to the plugin editor (Edit Templates).

And, no, there's no xml to change plugin editor colors without also changing main editor colors

[ginerjm]

And, no, there's no xml to change plugin editor colors without also changing main editor colors

At last the answer I could have used months ago! Although it seems that you are saying that the Edit Template function is actually a plugin and not part of the base model HTML_Kit Tools? Really?

Again the question rises up when you say that LB only applies to the main editor. HOW is THAT possible when the DCT style is applied to both windows?

As far as I know the two things - LB and DCT - are both color styles as your menus label them. So how did you manage to make both windows affected by DCT but the LB written by a 3rd party can make color settings that apply to only one window? This is what is confusing me when you say there is no way to modify the Edit Template window

It seems like we are going around in circles. I am sorry if you think I'm a nut, but I am really not and I am really trying to see something that explains this dilemma but I'm not able to. When I pull up a script to edit that window is being stylized by a 3rd party set of "colors". When I click on File,New, Edit & Manage Templates I am viewing a screen that is part of Tools (not a plugin), correct? If DCT can make both of these windows look the same, why can not the LB style do the same? What prevents it from happening?

[chami]

It seems like we are going around in circles. I am sorry if you think I'm a nut, but I am really not and I am really trying to see something that explains this dilemma but I'm not able to.

No worries It's not your fault, I have horrible communication skills!

Let's say I have two white papers, one labeled A and the other labeled B. I then pour red paint on A. I end up with a red paper and a white paper. This is what happens with LB. It applies colors to the main editor (A). Colors in the plugin editor (B) are not affected. The end result is two sets of colors, but not because LB actively applied two sets of colors.

If I made any sense there, to answer what seems to be the main question:

Is it possible to set one set of colors to the main editor, and another set of colors to the plugin editor? No.