Obsession (Her New Possession)
Feb. 23rd, 2008 07:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jheti
I've gone a touch mad for this idea of replicating Darkroom functionality in other typing/wordy-making/text processing apps.
Here's a workaround for the wonderful Notepad++. (It runs for sure in Windows 2000, XP Pro, and even freaking Vista. I know nothing of this Mac monstrosity of which you speak.) Here we are.
Go here and download it. The easiest thing to do when confronted with the list of files is pick the one with an .exe suffix; that's your standard auto-running installation thing. For computer geniuses, I believe there's .bins and similar suffix-alphabet soup.
Anyway, once you have it, click the options as it suits you, then load it and run it.
Go to "Settings" and choose "Styler Configurator". Make sure it's set to "Global Styles" and "Global Override" (these are the defaults, so don't sweat it). "Foreground color" is your text color and "Background Color" is, well, the background color.
If you've set your background to black, you'll notice that there's a screaming white highlight bar on your current line in the window. How to fix this?
Go to "Settings > Styler Configurator" again. Leave it on "Global Styles", but in the second list, scroll down to "Current line background color". The "Foreground Color" option will be greyed out. On the "Background Color" setting, change it from white to black, or whatever color you're using for your background. In other words, you can make that pesky white highlight bar match your background color!
As far as I know, there's no way to make the various interface settings at the top and sides go away, but this still does a decent job of approximating Darkroom without the super-annoying rolldown error from hell.
There you have it.
Here's a workaround for the wonderful Notepad++. (It runs for sure in Windows 2000, XP Pro, and even freaking Vista. I know nothing of this Mac monstrosity of which you speak.) Here we are.
Go here and download it. The easiest thing to do when confronted with the list of files is pick the one with an .exe suffix; that's your standard auto-running installation thing. For computer geniuses, I believe there's .bins and similar suffix-alphabet soup.
Anyway, once you have it, click the options as it suits you, then load it and run it.
Go to "Settings" and choose "Styler Configurator". Make sure it's set to "Global Styles" and "Global Override" (these are the defaults, so don't sweat it). "Foreground color" is your text color and "Background Color" is, well, the background color.
If you've set your background to black, you'll notice that there's a screaming white highlight bar on your current line in the window. How to fix this?
Go to "Settings > Styler Configurator" again. Leave it on "Global Styles", but in the second list, scroll down to "Current line background color". The "Foreground Color" option will be greyed out. On the "Background Color" setting, change it from white to black, or whatever color you're using for your background. In other words, you can make that pesky white highlight bar match your background color!
As far as I know, there's no way to make the various interface settings at the top and sides go away, but this still does a decent job of approximating Darkroom without the super-annoying rolldown error from hell.
There you have it.
