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Is Your Delphi IDE Hot or Not? – Introducing the Delphi IDE Theme Editor

Rodrigo
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UPDATE : Visit the new page of the project to check the new features.

The last weekend I was working in a new project called Delphi IDE Theme Editor. this tool allow to change the Delphi (Rad studio) color settings.
the application was written using Delphi XE and the Unicode SynEdit components.

Here some features

  • Supports Delphi 7, 2005, BDS/Turbo 2006 and RAD Studio 2007, 2009, 2010, XE
  • Can import Visual Studio Themes 2003,2008,2010 (.vssettings)
  • You can revert any changes made to the IDE pressing the button “Set default theme values for selected IDE”
  • 35 themes are included, ready to use in your Delphi IDE.

Screenshot of the application

Look the dephi IDE

check this video to see how the application set a new theme to Delphi IDE

See how the tool can import a Visual Studio Theme (.vssettings) and apply this style to Delphi IDE.

some tips

  • Check the site studiostyles to get a lot of themes which you can import to the Delphi IDE.
  • If your system does not have the Consolas font installed you can download the Consolas Font Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 from here

In the next days I will publish the full the source code and the technical details of the tool, so stay tuned.

Let me know If you have any suggestion or comments to improve the application.

Download the application from here

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58 responses

  1. Is Your Delphi IDE Hot or Not? – Introducing the Delphi IDE Theme Editor

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  2. Aldo Avatar
    Aldo

    I think it would be nice to have as a feature to click anywhere on the preview syntax highlighter and modify that particular attribute.

    And since you’re using SynEdit, I think it should have a GetHighlighterAttriAtRowCol function which gives you details as to what the attribute at specified XY is.

    Otherwise a really nice tool. Something which Delphi has lacked.

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Aldo, thanks for your suggestion.

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  3. Colucci Avatar
    Colucci

    Wow, great work! I think you are the guy who answered my quenstion about that on stackoverflow, right? As soon as you publish the source code and if you allow me, i’d like to create a delphi addon based on your code. Are you going to published that on the GPL license?

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Yes I answer your question in S.O , about the code, i need to make some modifications and improvements when this is done, i will publish the source code, in the google code site. about the license, i don’t know yet which license i will use.

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      1. Rafael Colucci Avatar
        Rafael Colucci

        I am Looking forward to it. And again, very nice job!

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  4. AndreFM Avatar
    AndreFM

    Great work, was looking already for something similar :-)

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  5. avra Avatar
    avra

    Export theme to visual studio would be nice ;-)

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  6. EMB Avatar
    EMB

    Just curious… What theme you personally use?

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Before to write this tool i use a variation of this theme , now i use the imported version of the ocean vs theme located here.

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      1. EMB Avatar
        EMB

        Would I be wishing too much asking you to share it? I like to see what developers are using, many times I find something that help me so much. Thanks for your work in this application it is very useful. :)

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        1. EMB Avatar
          EMB

          lol. Sorry, I misunderstood your comment. I thought that you said you used a ocean versus that theme… And you mean you used a VS theme… lol

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  7. briantokyo Avatar
    briantokyo

    Very nice. Maybe you could have it also import the themes from Notepad++

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      briantokyo, yes i like the themes of the notepad++, maybe in a future version will support this.

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  8. Neftalí -Germán Estévez- Avatar
    Neftalí -Germán Estévez-

    Hola Rodrigo.
    Fantástico trabajo como siempre. estaría bien que la gente pudiera compartir sus temas y así crear una biblioteca.

    Un saludo.

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Neftai gracias por tus comentarios, sobre el tema de la biblioteca de temas seria genial.

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  10. Pitfiend Avatar
    Pitfiend

    Muy buena herramienta para personalizacion del IDE. Hay alguna manera de modificar el lado izquierdo (ahi donde estan los numeros de linea)?, he probado de todo y es lo unico que no pude cambiar.

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Pitfield, debes elegir el elemento line number para modificar el panel de numeracion de lineas.

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      1. Pitfiend Avatar
        Pitfiend

        no encuentro esa opcion en el combobox de elementos… tengo la version 1.0.0.51, es esa la ultima version?

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        1. Rodrigo Avatar
          Rodrigo

          Pitfiend, que version de delphi estas usando?

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          1. Pitfiend Avatar
            Pitfiend

            D7

          2. Rodrigo Avatar
            Rodrigo

            Pitfiend, la numeracion de lineas esta disponible desde delphi 2005.

  11. Kevin P Avatar
    Kevin P

    Looks really great. Downloading now. The ability to load themes like you can in VS is something I really missed in Delphi. Thanks for adding it.

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Kevin, Thanks for your comments.

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  12. Iztok Kacin Avatar
    Iztok Kacin

    I would like to use you tool, but I use a custom profile (it makes a separate registry key) and you changes have no effect. Can you support specifying a custom profile. Or can you at least tell me where in the registry you make changes so I can port them to the custom profile. Thanks

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  13. Iztok Kacin Avatar
    Iztok Kacin

    Ok found the reg file the tool makes and made the registry path changed. But it would be nice to be able to specify that inside the application. It is just a string that you then use instead of BDS for Delphi 2006 for instance.

    A lot of tools I have seen (including GExperts) forget about custom profiles.

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Iztok, i will consider your suggestion for the next version of the tool.

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  14. Kevin P Avatar
    Kevin P

    I have been using it for a little bit now and you’ve done a great job. Two comments/suggestions.

    1) I wish there was a “Save As…” option so that I could easily save changes from one theme as a new theme. This would allow me to use an existing theme as a baseline for others.

    2) It would be nice if the Themes Listview was anchored so that it could grow vertically as the main form’s height was increased. There are a lot of themes for such a small viewable area of the list.

    Thanks again for a nice add-on that should have been part of Delphi for years.

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Thanks for your suggestions.

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  16. stOrM! Avatar
    stOrM!

    Very nice job. That was really missing.
    Would be great maybe to add the ability to import themes from a few more guis other then that nicely done congrats!

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Thanks for your comments, sure which in the future I will add support for import from more IDEs like Notepad++ and Eclipse. ;)

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  17. Jon Stefansson Avatar
    Jon Stefansson

    Hi, this is a great tool which has been sorely lacking in Delphi. Thank you for making this available for us.

    I don’t want to be negative, but I clicked the “Import current IDE theme from registry” button, and when I select the newly imported theme in the Themes list, I get the error message:

    Error loading values of current theme – Message: “” is not a valid integer value: Trace

    Am I doing something wrong or can I fix this manually in the xml file?

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Jon, thanks for your comments and feedback, report a bug is not be negative don’t worry about that. the idea is test the application to improve the quality of the tool. I will check your issue. stay tuned. ;)

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      1. Jon Stefansson Avatar
        Jon Stefansson

        Ok cool :)

        I can send you the xml file if you want? I’m using Delphi 2009.

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  18. TDelphiHobbyist Avatar
    TDelphiHobbyist

    Brilliant … I’ve been using [not recently] ColorIDE which was written for a much older version of Delphi by Andrew Rybenkov.

    http://www.vclcomponents.com/authors/Andrew_Rybenkov/

    Thanks for this!!

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Thanks for your comments, I see this application many years ago too.

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  19. Christopher Ramírez Avatar
    Christopher Ramírez

    Nice Job! I like it!

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  20. Gene Buckle Avatar
    Gene Buckle

    My eyesight thanks you! :)

    g.

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  23. bererece Avatar
    bererece

    It will be really useful if your program will be able to set a color to ‘Default’ as Delphi IDE does.

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      berece, thanks for you suggestion. but please use the the project page to make suggestions and report issues. ;)

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  24. Mario Avatar
    Mario

    No me funciona en delphi 7

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  25. Mario Avatar
    Mario

    Error loading values of current theme-message: Cadena calse no valida, ProgID:”Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0″: Trace (000965CB)[004975CB] y mas de estos numeros….

    Me pueden ayudar, me parece muy buen aporte el Delphi IDE Theme Editor, pero no me funciona…..

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Mario debes instalar MSXML 6.0 en tu sistema aqui esta el link de descarga http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/es-es/details.aspx?familyid=993c0bcf-3bcf-4009-be21-27e85e1857b1&displaylang=es

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  26. Jaromir Cervenka Avatar
    Jaromir Cervenka

    Brilliant application. You’ve just made my day :) Thank you.

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  27. NA Avatar
    NA

    Download link dead, please fix.

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      The link was fix.

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  28. Fernando Avatar
    Fernando

    Great job! Thanks!

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  29. Artem Smirnov Avatar
    Artem Smirnov

    Awesome. Just import my colors from VS2008 and it’s easy to switch now.
    PS. Fix “can’t load multi-bla-bla-bla”. Visual Studio settings can’t be importet if there more that one:

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Please use the issue page of the project to report this http://code.google.com/p/delphi-ide-theme-editor/issues/list

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  30. mrabee Avatar
    mrabee

    Fantastic , thanks a lot

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  31. inzkulozik Avatar
    inzkulozik

    File not found on Dropbox……..

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      Hi, please use the downloads links of the github page https://github.com/RRUZ/delphi-ide-theme-editor

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  32. me Avatar
    me

    Can you please upload the compiled EXE file?
    Pleaaaaseee :)

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    1. Rodrigo Avatar
      Rodrigo

      check this https://github.com/RRUZ/delphi-ide-theme-editor/releases/latest

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