In an eclipse application, I am using a dialog where different UI controls used such as Buttons, Labels, Combo boxes, TreeViewer, etc. For some UI controls, the tool tip is enabled. My requirement is to change the font characteristic (Bold & Italic) of the tool tip text.
Is it possible?
Thanks in advance!
Currently in Eclipse, you may not be able to change the font, color of the tooltip. We simply write .setToolTipText(...). However, you can get some idea from the following link to build fancy tooltip.
https://dentrassi.de/2011/02/21/fancy-tooltips-in-eclipse/
I would suggest you to go for Eclipse Info Popup, you can do all kinds of customization. You can find below the link.
https://www.javaworld.com/article/2073187/creation-of-infopopup-in-eclipse.html
Info popups appear as Javadocs in Eclipse.
I am using eclipse for studying, and I was thinking about changing the design of eclipse itself.
I found various of themes, which did only Change the Color of the different types of code, but not for example the Icons or the General UI.
Does anyone have links or advices for changing the whole look & feel?
if you're using latest eclipse (since 4.4), there is a dark theme included :
Window > preferences > General > Appearance > select dark theme
You can also check additional plugin for olders versions like https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-moonrise-ui-theme
But everything here is for dark theme, and you can't change icons
So i got a custom color theme in eclipse, decided i didn't like it and went back to the default. Now you know when you click on a variable in eclipse it highlights all the other mentions of it. It does it in black. So i successfully removed the other features just not that. Can anyone help me out?
This option is can be modified under the Annotations section of the Preferences dialog (as shown below).
I have found some nice dark themes for editing code in Eclipse (screenshot below), but they only apply to the code window itself. The package explorer and outline view are still white background. It would be great if there was some way to make everything dark, even the toolbar at the top. Is this possible?
Thanks,
Jonah
You can customise the user interface by creating a new appearance. This functionality is integrated into Eclipse, and comes with the 'classic' VS as well as the modern one by default. See http://andrei.gmxhome.de/skins/index.html for a custom appearance. You can probably change the colours of the component backgrounds with your own :)
In short: no, not really. SWT doesn't include any kind of skinning capability. If your OS has window color preferences, much of the Eclipse GUI will respect them, but I wouldn't guarantee all would. But you could certainly try using your OS's facilities, and see how far you get with that.
The Juno release of Eclipse (released 27 June 2012) makes it possible to change Eclipse's theme. The theme enables the possibility of changing every GUI color, even the toolbar at the top. The appearance of the editor was already possible. If you change both the theme and the editor's appearance with Eclipse Juno you can have a real nice looking dark theme.
This post has a simple 3 step proces to get a dark theme like this:
This will cost you less than 10 minutes to configure.
I've changed the color scheme in intellij so that the background of the Java editor pane is dark and the text is light. I'm not sure if this is directly related, however, in other windows such as the 'run' window, the background stays white but any system messages are displayed as white text. This is obviously a problem as I can't read white text on a white background unless I manually highlight the text to have the background a different color.
Is there a way to change the background color of other panes other than the editor pane in IntelliJ?
I believe if you restart IntelliJ, it will update the background of all panes (tool windows).
If you are having trouble to revert back to light frames, there is a way to do that.
Locate the your IntelliJ settings folder (on Windows, it is typically C:\Users\{username}\.IdeaIC12\, on Mac, it is something like ~/Library/Preferences/IntelliJIdea13/options. Of course you have to select the appropriate IntelliJ folder)).
Go to the folder config\options\.
Edit the file options.xml.
Delete these lines:
<component name="LafManager">
<laf class-name="idea.dark.laf.classname" />
</component>
Done.
** Edit ** As of Intelli-J Idea 12, Dark is the default! See my points below for versions 10/11
There is a way now - install the 'patch-ide' plugin in combination with the 'color-ide' plugin, and you will get your background colors across all the other panes and throughout the preferences of the application. If you just want to style your project tree also, use 'color-tree'
http://plugins.jetbrains.net/category/index?pr=webide&category_id=25
As a side note, here is an excellent dark color scheme, BlueForest
http://www.decodified.com/misc/2011/06/15/blueforest-a-dark-color-scheme-for-intellij-idea.html
How about this way.
File->Settings->Editor->Color & Fonts->General->Default text
Choose other color
then
Click the "Apply" button.
On Mac Ox and Idea 14 after changing back to Default theme you should also modify
~/Library/Preferences/IntelliJIdea14/options/laf.xml
and change
<laf class-name="com.intellij.ide.ui.laf.darcula.DarculaLaf" />
to
<laf class-name="com.apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel" />
I found a solution:
Go to view -> Quick switch Scheme.... and change option 5. Look and feel to Dracula
Here's the latest 2016 that worked for me. I had changed the white background for editors but all the panes were still black. Selecting Quick Switch Scheme -> Look and feel -> default option - solved it for me, i.e. white panes.
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2016.1/switching-between-schemes.html
For all using intellij IDEA 15
if the problem is inconsistent colors in different panes try this :
View -> Quick Switch Schemes - Look and Feel -> Intellij (Note : not same as default)
Problem might be that you said yes to 'set Dracula theme to be the default' earlier when changing to dracula from white theme.
I've managed to get everything with a black background + a nice skull wallpaper.
https://github.com/phackwer/DarkKnight_IntelliJ
I usually disable Tool Buttons, Tool Bar and Status Bar on the View Menu and also run the project on Full Screen mode. Looks sensational!
You can change the wallpaper to a different one by pressing shift twice and looking for Set Background Image.
There does not seem to be a way. I'll either have to revert my color scheme back to the default, keep the white on white text in the 'run' pane or convince my work to get me a mac so i can use the magic key combination to invert all colors on the screen!
I like to play around with different themes and installed a bunch of them. After a while when I switched back to IntelliJ Light, this happened -
The opened files bar in editor couldn't retrieve its default colors. I tried -
Switching between themes (View -> Quick switch scheme -> Theme -> Selecting another one
Restart the IDE
Finally I did this - Files -> Settings -> Plugins -> And disabled all installed themes and restart
And voila!
Hope this helps someone in a similar situation :)
Settings -> Editor -> Colors & Fonts
Set "Scheme" to "Default".
Helps instantly, without restart