Info Tech Scraps » Designs http://www.infoscraps.com Information Technology at your finger tips... Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:24:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Vibrant Ink theme for Eclipse based IDEs http://www.infoscraps.com/2009/02/19/vibrant-ink-theme-for-eclipse-based-ides/ http://www.infoscraps.com/2009/02/19/vibrant-ink-theme-for-eclipse-based-ides/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:38:43 +0000 Srinivasan A Paul Joseph http://www.infoscraps.com/2009/02/19/vibrant-ink-theme-for-eclipse-based-ides/ After my hugely successful Vibrant Ink theme port for Komodo IDE, NotePad++ and Visual Studio, it’s time to go for Eclipse based IDEs. Please follow the instructions carefully to have Vibrant Ink theme readied for your Eclipse based IDEs like Eclipse 3 or greater, Aptana, Flex Builder, Zend Studio, etc.

  1. Download the Zip file that contains all the files explained here.
  2. Download and Install the Monaco font for Windows.
  3. Extract the Zip file to Desktop or your convenient Location
  4. Start your Eclipse based IDE
  5. Choose Window -> Preferences
  6. Choose General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts
  7. Expand Basic and choose Text font under that. Click on Change button from right side, choose the Monaco font and choose size as 9pt
  8. Choose General / Your IDE Name / Your Plugin page for the specific Language
  9. Expand the Editors under the above said group and look for the CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, PHPDoc and ScriptDoc options.
  10. In the extracted files you’ll see .col files for all the above specified languages.
  11. Under the language group, select Colors and choose Import from the right side. Choose the appropriate .col file from the extracted location.
  12. Click Apply and Close Preferences by clicking on OK. Close all open files and reopen them to see it in cool Vibrant Ink theme.

So far I’ve created theme for CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, PHPDoc and ScriptDoc only. If you have an Eclipse based IDE that you’re using for any other languages (like Ruby, Python etc), please request here so that I can send you over the color files for the same.

]]> http://www.infoscraps.com/2009/02/19/vibrant-ink-theme-for-eclipse-based-ides/feed/ 0 Vibrant Ink theme for Komodo IDE, Notepad++ and Visual Studio http://www.infoscraps.com/2008/12/06/vibrant-ink-theme-for-komodo-ide-notepad-and-visual-studio/ http://www.infoscraps.com/2008/12/06/vibrant-ink-theme-for-komodo-ide-notepad-and-visual-studio/#comments Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:57:43 +0000 Srinivasan A Paul Joseph http://www.infoscraps.com/?p=62 The infamous Vibrant Ink theme that was originally designed for TextMate on Mac OS X is creating really good vibrations among the Ruby On Rails (RoR) developers and onlookers as it’s the standard theme used in all the screen casts and example videos shown in various sites as they fancy seeing the RoR language in this vibrant theme. I’ve been successful in porting this theme for Visual Studio and Notepad++, the IDEs I use very regularly. However, it’s been a disappointment to me to see that this particular theme is not available for Komodo IDE my best choice to programming in all Open Source languages.

After many unsuccessful attempts in finding suitable one, I’ve finally went ahead and created my own. Also, to add to the bliss, I’ve found a viable replacement for the so called, much loved Monaco font that’s a standard in Mac OS X for TextMate.

Download the Monaco Font. You should extract the font into the <os-drive>:\Windows\Fonts in your machine.

Download the Vibrant Ink theme for Komodo IDE settings. You should extract the settings file into the <os-drive>:\Users\<user-name>\AppData\Roaming\ActiveState\KomodoIDE\<version>\schemes for Vista and <os-drive>:\Documents and Settings\<user-name>\Application Data\ActiveState\KomodoIDE\<version>\schemes for Windows XP

Download the Vibrant Ink theme for Notepad++ settings. You should extract the settings file into <os-drive>:\Users\<user-name>\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++ for Vista and <os-drive>:\Documents and Settings\<user-name>\Application Data\Notepad++ for Windows XP

Download the Vibrant Ink theme for Visual Studio settings. You should extract the settings file into <os-drive>:\Users\<user-name>\Documents\Visual Studio <version>\Settings for Vista and <os-drive>:\Documents and Settings\<user-name>\My Documents\Visual Studio <version>\Settings for Windows XP

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