Decided to post my color scheme as well. Hope you guys like it! It's based on FD4's new look!


DOWNLOAD LINK : https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B76OB2InGHqGYzY3ZmZjNjktNmYyNS00ZTVlLWEyODUtMDYwNGQzMjlkZjU3&hl=en_US

I use the inkpot color scheme in vim all the time, so I made it for FD. works for AS3 and Text contexts right now, but will port to other languages upon request.
enjoy.



download:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/56125071/inkpot.fdz

Hi everyone, here is my dark color scheme w/ a lot of additional keywords for AS3
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63339278/bb.fdz

Great thread. I'd never thought about dark syntax coloring before, but so far I'm loving it.

Anyway, on to my question.

Lots of you are sharing very nice schemes. But I've googled and googled some more and still I can't find any explanation/tutorial on how this all works.

When I take any of the schemes provided here and I customize them, that works just fine, until I try changing keyword class names or keyword keys. Then I find out that I don't understand how any of this works.

For instance:
- what's the criterion for the order of priority in coloring (when one keyword matches two styles, which one prevails)
- what style names are supported by the lexer
- is there a fixed order to declare the styles
- what style properties can be used (so far I've found: name, fore, back, bold, italics)
- how are the styles linked to the keywords (I noticed that the style named "word" is by default linked to the keyword class "as3-primary-keywords" but this seems to change if I edit the key property of the keyword: key="6" class="as3-primary-keywords")

Has anybody done some research on this?

I've tried figuring it out through trial and error but it seems there are too many factors to take into account to approach it succesfully in that way.

A propos: I've also read a lot about scintilla, lexers etc. but the specifics for this Actionscript lexer are nowhere to be found.

@kvkleef this is a very trick topic (as with everything related to Scintilla BTW).

Firstly I must admit I don't understand it fully myself (it's more Mika's area), but I know some tips.

Style names (number, comment, word, word2,... order isn't meaningful) are hardcoded in Scintilla.dll and depend on the lexer - they are listed here:
http://code.google.com/p/flashdevelop/s ... /Lexers.cs

Styles called "wordX" usually correspond to a keyword class. For instance I had to directly patch the CPP lexer (used for AS) in Scintilla.dll to add the additional word3/4/5 classes. I'm not sure about the priority, I think it uses the first class matched (order is hardcoded in Scintilla).

When creating a new syntax I first check the corresponding syntax file in SciTE which provides lots of informations and ready to use keyword classes, although the format is completely different.

Another reinstall, another log in just to thank the author of the theme in the original post. Can't stress enough how easy it is on the eyes.

Stealing some color codes from Bumb0x, PLyczkowski, and the Sublime 2 text editor, I've come up with my own little custom mix:



Download here.

Monokai Dark Soda like :



Get it on : https://github.com/younes0/fdMonokai

Name: Dark Earth
Supports: AS2, AS3
Font: Consolas (monospaced, non-proportional typeface, designed by Luc(as) de Groot. It is a part of a new suite of fonts that take advantage of Microsoft's ClearType font rendering technology)
Theme: Earth tones, dark green, blue and brown (great - if you need to do a lot of night coding)

Link to theme: take it here
(If font is installed in your system - just grab a theme and enjoy)
Link to font: take it here
(Font comes with Windows Vista, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. If you don't have any of these programs, use a link to get it - it's free.)

Hope you like it.

Another obsidian-like color theme for FD4 (with full Haxe support), feel free to use:
http://blog.deepnight.net/2013/05/obsid ... velop.html

http://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com/
now that's what I call a theme editor
edit: Chrome only apparently