Vibrant Ink theme for Eclipse based IDEs
February 19, 2009 Designs, IDEs, Plugins, Tips & Tricks
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, Adobe Flex Builder, Zend Studio, etc.
- Download the Zip file that contains all the files explained here.
- Download and Install the Monaco font for Windows.
- Extract the Zip file to Desktop or your convenient Location
- Start your Eclipse based IDE
- Choose Window -> Preferences
- Choose General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts
- Expand Basic and choose Text font under that. Click on Change button from right side, choose the Monaco font and choose size as 9pt
- Choose General / Your IDE Name / Your Plugin page for the specific Language
- Expand the Editors under the above said group and look for the CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, PHPDoc and ScriptDoc options.
- In the extracted files you’ll see .col files for all the above specified languages.
- Under the language group, select Colors and choose Import from the right side. Choose the appropriate .col file from the extracted location.
- 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.
Comments (10)
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This is great, have bookmarked….
hi there,
your instruction seems to be not valid with Eclipse 3.4.2. Can you please show me how?
Thanks,
Trung
Hi,
Eclipse 3.4.2 does not support importing the style information for code coloring. Therefore, only a full preferences export can help you. However, as this may overwrite any settings you already have, it may do serious damage. If you’re OK with it, let me know so that I can send you a full preferences upload.
Hi srinivasan,
i’d like to get this working in the new eclipse. would you be so kind and send me a full preferences file? i’d really apprechiate this
thanks,
t
You do realize that the preferences file for Eclipse does not have to be complete? You can export everything and the vut out the stuff you don’t neet. this is most likely how the guys got this Python vibant ink theme. Could you do the same wiht HTML/javascript stuff?
Can you import this for 3.5?
Hi,
good work, thanks.
Could you create a *.col file for pydev, please?
I tried another one from the net. Unfortunately it has some problems with marked lines and words and comes as an *.epf and seems to make trouble wirh some settings.
Regards
kraeMit
Could you make one for Java?
It is not language specific. It’s IDE specific.
Because of reading your blog, I decided to write my own. I had never been interested in keeping a blog until I saw how helpful yours was, then I was inspired!