Today, instead of doing something possibly more interesting for a hour and some, I've spent those to edit standard theme that comes with GameMaker: Studio.
Modifications are as following:
- Active window now has grey border, rather than a indefinitely green one.
- Window captions now have a slight tilted line texture. Makes these a tiny bit less boring to look at.
- Window control buttons are now better-spaced and cleaner.
- Window border is now 3px instead of 4px, also with smaller amount of "rounding" on top of windows.
- Fixed issue with 2-3 magenta pixels appearing near top-right corner when resizing MDI windows a lot.
- Menu text is now of light-grey colour.
- All sorts of buttons now have a grey colour for currently active one, and easier to distinguish green border for mouse-over.
- Checkboxes now have an actual (non-triangular) "check"
- Radio buttons are now properly anti-aliased.
I'll try to also include an icon file soon, but until then, a preferred method of installation is baking up of original "GMGreen.skn" and placing .skn from archive on it's place. Restarting GameMaker: Studio is required, obviously.
Hi. The Dropbox download link is broken. Fix pls? Thx. :)
Fixed.
Will this skin work on any other versions than Studio, eg. version 8?
GameMaker 8 did not have theme support. The earliest version with theme support is GameMaker: HTML5, which was discounted in favour of studio (and was basically an earlier version of what became Studio).
How i can make it work? I put these files in skin. I go to preferences — General and choose GMGreen. Press OK. I go to preferences — Scripts and code, import the .col. Restart GML but nothing happend. Thanks
Color scheme changes take effect as soon as any text in open code editors is modified.
Theme changes take effect after program restart.
If you are replacing the default theme file, it is also worth a mention, that you should not have the program open while replacing it.
H!
can you make a tutorial how i load this GMGreen+?
i try load in preferences -script and code -import …after i resart ,but nothing change nothing diferent…..?
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thx
Ok ! working !..
But if you can change something pls ?
–“Active window now has grey border, rather than a indefinitely green one.”
-this can you change to orange ? like the icon ?for more visible when active ?
-or can you explane how i edit the .skn file ?
Skin files for GameMaker: Studio can be edited via a program called SkinBuilder ( http://www.link-rank.com/builder/skinbuilder.htm ). It is outdated slightly, and can be tricky to use at times, but does it’s work.
We have been waiting for something like this for ages! You are an absolute genius, thank you so much!
Certainly following this blog!