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Hi guys, I've just registered to share a little thing, I've made a color scheme for Notepad++ inspired by the website.
It's only for Lua (it's what we LÖVE, no ?) but feel free to adapt it for other languages if you want.

Yep, it's quite useless, but if somebody wants it, here we go. Tell me if there are bugs.

http://sdrv.ms/TPaC2D
(Skydrive shortened link)
Included in the folder : screenshot comparison between HamsterBall tutorial on the website and in Notepad++, readme, and the xml theme.

EDIT : alternative 1 (white background and increased contrast) by Kadoba : viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12308&p=73719#p73717

Here is the content of the readme file : *Return to his cave --->[ ]*

Is there anybody finds writing code on a light background confortable? Hurts my eyes a lot *_*

It's an eternal debate

I like to use light background during daytime but I switch to the darkside at night.

This is pretty awesome. I changed a couple of things to increase the contrast and complete the color scheme.

Here is the theme file if anyone wants to try an alternative

Thanks, I add your version to the 1st post.

Looks pretty cool!

But yeah, I'm definitely in the "white on black" camp, as opposed to "black on white." I've read before that black on white on a screen is pretty much the worst possible combination for your eyes, though I'm not sure if it's true.

Well, it depends on several things (hard to explain cuz my english is a bit rusty) :

- the ambiant brightness in your room or workspace
- the model/quality and the settings of your monitor
- sensibility of your eyes about colors and contrast and if you have a good view or not
- other programs that are running beside and maybe quite light (browser, music player, etc...)

For example, my case : during daytime, as said above, it doesn't annoy me to use white on black because my room is under the sun.
So at night, I like to use black on white of course. But if I work with other programs beside my editor, it could hurt my eyes too.
Imagine that you're reading a documentation, and the website use black on white. Your IDE is white on black. Pain in the ass, oops, eyes.
But fortunately I have an addon for my browser, Instaread (similar to Instapaper, Readability, etc...).

Also it depends on what exactly we call "white" and we call "black". I can't support true white on true black, it hurts my eyes, so I use smoothier greyscales like #d0d0d0 on #232527.

So, personnaly I don't have a camp, it depends a lot. And this theme is not a "black on white" advocate theme, it's just like a bonus for LÖVE devs.

Anyway, what I want to say is : we can't really debate on this, because everybody (and things we use) are different

DarthWound wrote:Well, it depends on several things (hard to explain cuz my english is a bit rusty) :

- the ambiant brightness in your room or workspace
- the model/quality and the settings of your monitor
- sensibility of your eyes about colors and contrast and if you have a good view or not
- other programs that are running beside and maybe quite light (browser, music player, etc...)

For example, my case : during daytime, as said above, it doesn't annoy me to use white on black because my room is under the sun.
So at night, I like to use black on white of course. But if I work with other programs beside my editor, it could hurt my eyes too.
Imagine that you're reading a documentation, and the website use black on white. Your IDE is white on black. Pain in the ass, oops, eyes.
But fortunately I have an addon for my browser, Instaread (similar to Instapaper, Readability, etc...).

Also it depends on what exactly we call "white" and we call "black". I can't support true white on true black, it hurts my eyes, so I use smoothier greyscales like #d0d0d0 on #232527.

So, personnaly I don't have a camp, it depends a lot. And this theme is not a "black on white" advocate theme, it's just like a bonus for LÖVE devs.

Anyway, what I want to say is : we can't really debate on this, because everybody (and things we use) are different

Yep, it's definitely different for everybody! I definitely prefer "light on dark" (as you suggested, "which on black" probably isn't very accurate), though my room is almost always very bright, so that may be part of it. It's worth noting that I only feel this way about programming - I prefer everything else the other way. So, maybe it's all in my head?

But no matter one's preference, your theme is well-done and is a great contribution to the LOVE community

Both are LÖVEly themes. Thanks for the contribution.

Pic attached for those wondering what the alternate theme looks like

srcn wrote:Is there anybody finds writing code on a light background confortable? Hurts my eyes a lot *_*

I too prefer nice colors on black or dark background, which usually ends up black in the end anyway. I use Sublime Text 2 and love it except that I can't also make the sidebar black as well so it doesn't stick out when I'm typing.