Dark theme

[k2ironman]

The mobile app has dark theme and it would be great if I can set a dark theme on my PC also.
Thanks :)

[slodki]

For Linux and Mac it's very easy - you can change GTK+ theme in the system settings:

[slodki]

From wxWidgets blog about Mac and dark theme:

Stefan Csomor, Daniel Kulp and others have added supported for the upcoming next macOS version: 10.14, a.k.a. Mojave, and, notably, its new dark mode. Some problems might still remain, so please test your Mac applications with Mojave and let us know if you notice anything wrong.

[k2ironman]

I'm using windows, that's why I wrote here.

[vomikan]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.howtogeek.com/222614/how-to-enable-windows-10s-hidden-dark-theme/amp/
https://forums.wxwidgets.org/viewtopic.php?t=34742

[vomikan]

https://gist.github.com/ZachSaucier/8295d9dc926d7064ff0d4f3f04b35b55

[vomikan]

[valsamis-d]

@vomikan this one looks great. For what I understand, though, there's a lot of techie work involved to achieve this look :( Is there anyway to share the css file you're using? I'm using Windows 10. Thanks!

[vomikan]

Hi there,

It would working only on Linux or Mac. Unfortunatly, on Windows Black theme does not change app color settings.
But you can change homepage color settings by merge
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ZachSaucier/8295d9dc926d7064ff0d4f3f04b35b55/raw/06a8cc03bbdbb7e36f7ae192f834226320f752cd/dark-theme.css
file into res\master.css

[whalley]

Have developed a Dark Theme that I will release shortly... Example as below using some test data

[reddyshyam]

Looks great! Well done! 👍 👌🤝👏

Taking latest snapshot.

Edit: I didn't see this new theme? Do we have to drop the theme file somewhere?

[whalley]

@reddyshyam Try this with the latest build - https://mmex.ipx.co.uk/dark-mode.mmextheme

[reddyshyam]

@reddyshyam Try this with the latest build - https://mmex.ipx.co.uk/dark-mode.mmextheme

Thanks @whalley. 👍 Looks awesome on windows too. Font sizes other than homepage are a tad larger. May be fine tuning is required?

Now I only wish the MMex icon can get an overhaul. 🙂

[whalley]

Sure we can fine tune over time. I’ll get it added as a system theme so we can get more people to test.

[vomikan]

I'm afraid I'll have to make a separate theme for Windows.

[whalley]

I'm afraid I'll have to make a separate theme for Windows.

What’s the issue on Windows? @reddyshyam seemed to imply it works fine on Windows, keen to make sure the themes are platform agnostic if possible.

[grumpy235]

@whalley Nice theme.
Just downloaded latest master,compiled on Win10 and VS2019 and Account View I only see every other line

Click on non-visible line, background lightens and text is faintly visible in black

I wonder if that is what @vomikan was refering to ?

[whalley]

You need to:

1. Enable Dark-Mode in Windows 10
2. Start MMEX
3. Enable the dark-mode theme in MMEX
4. Restart MMEX

That at least works in MacOS. The trick is not to switch to dark mode whilst MMEX is running as it will not pick up the change.

Does that solve things?

[vomikan]

You also need to change the color of each button. And still a lot of objects will remain, which do not change the color and the color is not inherited from the OS color scheme.

[whalley]

Yes, its a shame the Win implementation does not take the dark OS elements. Think I'll leave it there for now and perhaps we tag as Windows issue / on hold. I can make a note against the theme that it works best on non-Windows systems.

[vomikan]

Also, please, update submodule
moneymanagerex/themes@4565e96

[grumpy235]

I think I'll stay with colorful for the time being. Changes now make the data visible although a little bright :-) I get the following with and without windows dark mode

Still better than when I started with screens when you could have any colour as long as it was green!

[reddyshyam]

Sorry @whalley, I missed out the conversation. All the issues pointed above were what I thought minor tweaks. Hope it wasn't too much trouble. Thanks @vomikan for helping make it better.

Took the latest snapshot (fix(#1779): pickup latest theme repo) and the theme looks brilliant to me. 👍 👌👏. I am keeping it. 🙂

Thanks for all the hardwork. Appreciate it. 🙏

[whalley]

@grumpy235 That coloring looks very odd. The layout should be as @vomikan posted earlier, are you using the latest build? At least that is how it looks on my Windows test box.

[reddyshyam]

@grumpy235 That coloring looks very odd. The layout should be as @vomikan posted earlier, are you using the latest build? At least that is how it looks on my Windows test box.

Mine looks exactly like this 👆 and I dont use Windows dark mode too.

[whalley]

Mine looks exactly like this 👆 and I dont use Windows dark mode too.

Yes the forcing of panel colors works well on machines not using OS dark mode. But looks really pretty in Dark Mode on MacOS.

** dark-mode theme with MacOS 'Light' mode**

** dark-mode theme with MacOS 'Dark' mode**

[reddyshyam]

Mine looks exactly like this 👆 and I dont use Windows dark mode too.

Yes the forcing of panel colors works well on machines not using OS dark mode. But looks really pretty in Dark Mode on MacOS.

** dark-mode theme with MacOS 'Light' mode**

** dark-mode theme with MacOS 'Dark' mode**

Ah yes, I see the difference but Light mode isn't bad either. 🙂

[grumpy235]

@whalley - all I did is Git applied your latest fixes under VS2019 and recompiled but I will re-download the master and compile again. As it stands at present if I hover over the white lines then they turn black.

[grumpy235]

@whalley refreshed my repository and now I get the same as @vomikan 😊
Had issues before with themes and VS2019/Git, downloading the commits and recompiling sometimes does not work - no big deal

[whalley]

@grumpy235 Sounds like you need to update the themes sub module.

[grumpy235]

@whalley - I guess so still on a learning curve with Git, last source manager I used in anger was Panvalet in the '70s !

[vomikan]

@grumpy235

git submodule update --init --recursive

[vomikan]