Totally black theme

[Hadden]

Hi everyone
I recently switched to a dark windows theme as using a 32'' monitor with too much white is a pain for the eyes (really XD).
I tweaked colours in preferences and in xyexplorer.ini too (RRGGBB tweak).
Pretty much black but Gray is still there in some areas:


I'd like to put yellow "separator" between tree and folders, have a (more) dark gray or black on tab bar and possibly kill that thin gray line below the menu bar.
Having a dark - black/yellow - also on address bar would be the top.
Any tips?

[admin]

There is a tweak (http://www.xyplorer.com/faq-topic.php?id=tweak) for the Toolbar BackColor, that's all:

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; Tweak: RRGGBB
ToolbarBackColor=

[Hadden]

I used that. Perfet colorization for toolbar.
I was wondering if it was possible to do change colours also for address bar and tab background (they still are gray)

[admin]

They all use the Windows system color for "Button Face" (also the Toolbar). So why don't you simply set this color to black for the whole system?

[Hadden]

They all use the Windows system color for "Button Face" (also the Toolbar). So why don't you simply set this color to black for the whole system?

Ok, on win10 th2 themes are still working in progress (expecially theming support).
I'll play with that, then

[chakkra]

Hey Haden, would you like to share your tweaks, plz?
I am currently toying around to get everything black, too.

[Hadden]

Hey Haden, would you like to share your tweaks, plz?
I am currently toying around to get everything black, too.

On windows 10 10586 (I mean latest TH2 patch. No support yet for slow rings and fast rings, that are beta and alpha version. I suggest to avoid them)
However most of the procedure is the same for XP to 10.
1) Find and install Uxtheme patcher (it's auto for xp to 8.1)
2) For win10 you'll probably need to manually patch three files (uxtheme,uxinit,themeui) in system32. (Reboot after patch is suggested)
3) Download themes for your windows version, copy in c:\windows\resources\themes\ and apply theme.

After applying a dark theme, you should get full dark in xyexplorer (some themes doesn't full colourize the program; just switch to another theme).
Then just tweak colours in xyexplorer settings

[admin]

RRGGBB is a formula. For black you should do this:

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; Tweak: RRGGBB
ToolbarBackColor=000000

[Hadden]

Whoops. Put that value gave black colour by default, I'll correct previous post
it's RGB value or hex? (I think second one)

However, I tried others themes which has "better" toolbar/buttons skinning, and the value is not need anymore



Now it's perfect ^^

[admin]

It's hex. You appear to use this now:

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ToolbarBackColor=2d2d2d

[Starhowl]

Care to share your dark theme with us somewhere Hadden?

[klownboy]

Yes, it would be nice to see those attributes you came up with to achieve that totally black background. I'm curious because a number of us had written theme changers http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 30#p101802 and I really wonder or question whether they included all of the attributes need to make the background shown above.