I'm having a strange issue with Maya I can't find a solution for online. There's no rendering buttons in the rendering icons menu, only these two buttons, one for editing shading relationships and the other for pausing "Viewpoint 2 display update":
There's also none in the menu set menu:
There's also no rendering settings window option in the windows menu:
nor are there any rendering options in the windows preferences:
Any idea? I've tried this version of maya on two computers now (a lenovo ideapad flex 4 and a panasonic toughbook cf-32) and am having the same issue.
So apparently LT doesn't provide rendering, lol. Ok. The problem is, Autodesk isn't giving me full access even though my institution is supposed to be provided it. Anyway, problem solved.
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I've recently (about 3 months ago) started using Visual Studio 2017 Community, v15.6.2. Questions that stump me:
1) How do I get all my windows to be tiled and remain on-screen as I move from one window to the next? At the moment I could have two or more windows in the workspace. As soon as I click on one to work in it, the others disappear. Don't know how to fix it!
2) What is that cross that appears in the center of the workspace when I am busy moving windows around. Cross seems to have arrows and made up of blocks by the looks of it.
3) How do I get the Properties Window to be vertically tabbed on the rhs side of the workspace? i.e. if I click on the Properties tab the Properties window appears, else it is not visible.
Thanks in advance.
By default only one code file is visible in VS. To see multiple code windows at once you can create several tab groups or float document windows outside the IDE. Another option is to use my Task Canvas extension - after you add code files or fragments to the Task Canvas window they are automatically tiled.
For the guide diamond and other window management options please refer to the Customize window layouts in Visual Studio documentation.
While editing a PowerPoint document, I select a slide with bullet points then click Slide Show - Animation Schemes. I select the Appear and dim scheme, but the selection doesn't "stick" - the active animation scheme still shows as "No Animation".
I've verified that the "Show Without Animation" option is NOT checked. What else would cause this behavior?
As it turns out, the PowerPoint presentation file I was working on, which had been passed on to me from someone else, was originally set up using a template from a later version of PowerPoint. Apparently, that version had settings that were not accessible in PowerPoint 2003, so it just didn't work.
Fortunately, we'll be joining the modern world of MS Office soon and won't be dealing with this kind of problem.
So I have been trying for a couple of hours to set a dark theme for Eclipse Juno, the blinding white in your face is very tiring and strains the eyes after a short time. I managed to find a theme that darkens eclipse but still a few problems remain.
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I have no control over the background color of the menubar. Is it possible to change it? I tried everything in Win7 "Window Color and Appearance" but aside from being able to change the fontsize of the window title the colors do not change.
I have no control over the fontsize used for the titles in the various view panels of Eclipse, like the projectexplorer or editor.
No control over scrollbar color.
These are minor issues but would make the end result of the themes so much better. Is it at all possible to do anything with any of those issues on Win7?
Does this help for item 2?
The font size for the view and editor titles can be changed in Preferences. Select General->Appearance->Colors and Fonts. In the panel on the right, expand 'View and Editor Folders' and select 'Part title font' then click the 'Edit...' button.
On this subject, this Eclipse Themes plugin is also worth a look:
https://github.com/jeeeyul/eclipse-themes/
This is an excellent article about Eclipse theming:
http://www.vogella.com/articles/Eclipse4CSS/article.html
As for the menubar and scrollbar, the aforementioned article states:
SWT currently has some limitations for styling. For example it is not
possible to style menus and table headers. In addition some platforms
do not allow the styling of certain widgets, e.g. the Button or the
ScrollBar widget.
In order to make these widgets fit nicely you can install custom Windows theme, such as this one: http://vi20rickrmetal12us.deviantart.com/art/Pre-Black-VS-for-Windows-7-180497508 (before you can install a custom theme, you have to patch your system with Universal Theme Patcher or similar tool).
I hit the same wall some time ago. I found this resources very useful at that point:
A eclipse 4 dark theme described in the blog post of its author. It can be downloaded from github here. You can see also the content of the code.
The home of various eclipse themes here.
Another stackoverflow quetion dealing with similar problems here.
Currently I am using InteliJ Idea with its darkula theme.
My Win32 Application displays Menus as shown when running on Win 7:
This is the Default for the themes Windows 7 as well as Windows 7 Aqua.
Please note that the selected menu entry is only slightly different from the other entries. I think it is much too less highlighted and therefore i am looking for a way to give the selected entry a different color. But unfortunately all possibilities to modify menu colors disappeared in Windows 7. The settings made in the window color dialog are non effective for menus.
But amazingly Microsoft's own applications look different. I.e. Paint has different color and appearance of menus:
This has good contrast and is much better than the default for a Win32 application.
Also Visual Studio 2010 looks different:
I know that VS 2010 is build on WPF. I don't know if and how the ribbon, used in paint influences the menu appearance. My menus are set up dynamically using SetMenu();
My Question: Is there any way to change the appearance of my applications menu using a API or maybe a manifest or resource?
Or is there a way to modify the color of the selected menu entry in Windows 7 through settings?
You can make your own user drawn menus. For an example, take a look at this CodeProject.com article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/menus/newmenuxpstyle.aspx
Also, VS 2010 is not entirely built on WPF - only the code editor.
On OSX, MacVim and Terminal can both be themed to be light-on-dark.
Xcode 3.2 allow the same customization for its editor using color schemes.
However, is there a way to do the same to its UI panels ("Groups and Files"
left pane and the list view top pane for example)? If not, is there a
quick way to toggle both panels on/off?
While you can't adjust the IDE color scheme, you can quickly toggle the navigator, debug area, and utility views with the following commands:
Navigator : ⌘0
Debug Area : ⇧⌘Y
Utility : ⌥⌘0
So, if you set your theme to one with a dark background, you can quickly close/open the lighter portions of the IDE as needed.
You can also change the debug console to have a different background by going into preferences ⌘., then go to Fonts & Colors, then select the Console. Now you can edit its background:
Just be sure to edit the font colors of the various input and outputs texts if you choose black. By default all of the input/output fonts are black, only the console prompt is not.
One possibility for now: System Preferences => Accessibility => Display => Invert Colors.
Note that Apple recently announced at WWDC that Xcode 10 will support "dark mode" as of some time in late 2018.
One cool workaround for this is to use a combination of
"Invert Colors" (in System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display -> Invert Colors OR setting up a "Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-8" shortcut in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Accessibility -> Invert Colors)
and
Choosing your favourite dark theme in Xcode's "Fonts & Colors", but inverted (!).
For example, I like a Choco theme from Chocolat app, but I need the functionality of Xcode, so I imported the theme manually by adjusting and enhancing some of the fonts and colors in some Xcode's custom dark theme's duplicate. After I was happy with the final theme, I duplicated it and inverted the colors using one of the websites that can be found in Google (http://www.mattlag.com/scripting/hexcolorinverter.php). And voila! "Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-8" + "Inverted Dark Theme" makes the whole Xcode environment dark and looking great, without the need of hiding any other sections of Xcode like Navigator, Debug and Utilities.
Let me know if this solution helps. I find it a little time consuming, but worth the effort.
p.s.: I've posted the discussed themes on GitHub: https://github.com/Rep0se/xcode-themes
p.p.s: To theme FileMerge tool in Mojave (for now) use this solution in combination with Invert Colors outlined above.
Quick shortcut Tip: To launch preferences, hit "Command" + ","
WWDC 2018 announced that Xcode 10 on macOS 10.14 will finally include native dark mode support. This will be available around Q3 2018. It will be a full dark style from the side menus to storyboards.
You can turn to full dark mode with the new macOS Mojave.
Simply go to System settings->General and switch to dark. Enjoy!!!
I've been digging around lately and I found some kind of "Hack" of DVT Framework myself... Xcode 10 with dark theme is however around the corner, so there will be no need for this hacking anymore... Anyway you can do nice thingies with this such as changing Highlight colors for buttons and plist-file browsers... If you open Xcode with Show Package Contents and browse a bit, you can find this nice file:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Default.dvttheme
You can open this either with Visual Studio Code or Atom or any code editor.
From now on, you can do some hacking and change some of the colors in the Xcode IDE:
But somehow, due to nature of Aqua theme/user interface, you cannot change the scrollViews, which is a bit disappointing... When you could, I would already create repo which would have all the craziness of colors for this. If you want, you can change at least plistViewer and the Attributes inspector windows (The properties are called and documented nice in Default.dvttheme
Hope this helps a bit.
edit:
What you could do is to edit the default Aqua theme with ThemeEngine https://github.com/DominikBucher12/ThemeEngine
(Change assets to black/dark) and the Xcode would inherit this Appearance..
There is an Xcode project that has a huge collection of themes, both light and dark. My favorite is Moodnight.
https://github.com/hdoria/xcode-themes