Philipp 56 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Hey, just a week ago I discovered Energia on hackaday and was very happy to see that I'm not the only one who loves the Launchpad idea but doesn't really want to install CCS or a whole lot of development tools just to get started. I think Energia really opens a new way for beginners to get into programming one of those MSP430 chips. Until now I experienced no problems at all using the Energia IDE, which is quite impressive in my opinion. I think Robert did an amazing job porting all the Arduino features to a tiny little 4.30$ dev tool. The only thing I noticed was the different theme compared to the recent arduino 1.x.x IDEs. Energia's current theme is basically a red version of the Wiring theme or Arduino 0xx. Because I really like the Arduino IDE and it's current design, I made a red version of it to replace the somewhat 'old fashioned' theme Energia is currently using. I attached a comparison of the four themes below, beginning from the top left there are: Arduino 1.0, my variation of the Energia theme, the current version of Wiring and the original Energia theme. What do you think? Cheers, Philipp Rickta59 and bluehash 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rickta59 589 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 I like it. I like that the current tab is white not dark. What does it look like with multiple source file tabs open? -rick Philipp 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Philipp 56 Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 Thank you! Multiple tabs look like this: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rickta59 589 Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Looks very nice! I think you should submit this for formal review. You can follow the steps here to get your changes considered, discussed and potentially included in the code base: https://github.com/energia/Energia/wiki ... ew-process -rick Philipp 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rei Vilo 695 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Multiple tabs look like this: This is really nice. Two questions, in the example provided: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Philipp 56 Posted July 30, 2012 Author Share Posted July 30, 2012 Getting the contrast right is quite fiddly when you're working with only a few variations of red, but i tried my best to improve it without adding pink to the color scheme The preview image has slightly different colors and contrast than the original, please click it to view the original image. Rei Vilo 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rickta59 589 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Do you have anti-alias turned on? How about making the tab text black for both active and inactive And if we are tweaking, can we get the default font to be Consolas ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas. -rick Philipp 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Philipp 56 Posted July 30, 2012 Author Share Posted July 30, 2012 Black text for the tabs looks way better, thanks! Do you have anti-alias turned on? Anti Aliasing and ClearType are enabled. I had some difficulties to change the editor font and to enable anti aliasing for the editor itself. Wiring, Arduino and Energia use the Processing IDE, and this for some reason has a pretty clear theme.txt config file which defines the appereance of everything except the editor, and a more general and obscure preferences.txt located in another folder. It took me some time to figure out why the heck the Consolas font in the console looked perfectly fine but was aliased in the editor. Turned out that the theme itself is anti-aliased by default, the editor is not! You can however enable it in the preferences.txt to make Consolas way nicer to read. I think I will submit this theme to the git, and I may also write a short tutorial on how to change the appereance on all the Processing based IDEs, if people are interested energia and Rickta59 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rei Vilo 695 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Getting the contrast right is quite fiddly when you're working with only a few variations of red, but i tried my best to improve it without adding pink to the color scheme The preview image has slightly different colors and contrast than the original, please click it to view the original image. I know how difficult it is: I took gray as additional colour when I designed the original theme. I really like this new theme Congratulations :thumbup: Philipp 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
energia 485 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Awesome! Would be great if you can send me the files and the new theme can go into the next release planned for this weekend. Philipp 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Philipp 56 Posted August 1, 2012 Author Share Posted August 1, 2012 Thanks for your kind words and nice ideas guys, your feedback is awesome! :clap: Are any apple users here who can tell me how OSX handles ClearType Fonts like Consolas? I have to ask because Energia hast different font presets for Linux/Windows and OSX. Just another piece of 'fanart': How do you like this splashscreen? Is there any interest in changing this, too, or do you want to keep the original one, energia? @energia: I attached the theme below, so you can preview it on your installation. Simply place the content of the archive in your energia folder or a copy of it, overwrite all, and run energia. You should get the exact same results as in the screenshot I posted before. The editor font is likely still 'Monospaced', to change this you have to delete the 'preferences.txt' In 'C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Energia' and run energia again. blue's energia theme.zip If you do not want to overwrite the preference.txt in the energia folder, just edit three lines of it: editor.font=Consolas,plain,12 editor.antialias=true console.lines=5 Cheers, Philipp bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rei Vilo 695 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Very nice! I've just changed the orientation of the Energia rocket because it may give the impression it's going to fall. A 60 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Philipp 56 Posted August 1, 2012 Author Share Posted August 1, 2012 Yeah, i tilted it to fit the length of the energia text, but it looks indeed if it is going to descend the next second I used this as a reference . Anyways, this is just at the 'protoyping' stage, i'll definetly refine it if you guys are interested in it. Cheers, Philipp Quote Link to post Share on other sites
energia 485 Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 Made some minor tweaks and pushed it up to master. https://github.com/energia/Energia/comm ... diff-4=0-0 Thank you for the contribution! bluehash 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Philipp 56 Posted August 5, 2012 Author Share Posted August 5, 2012 Thank you for valueing the input of the community and adding my theme to the repository, I really appreciate it! :thumbup: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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