Dark theme (background) color for TestStand and MAX

[dotNet_to_LabW]

Hello,

Many SW-Tool providers have realized that how comfortable it is for a programmeruser to work with dark backgrounds. Microsoft did it in 2013 for visual studio and now browser companies are doing the same. Unfortunately, I can Change background color of MAX and TestStand. This makes longer working painful for eyes.

An example of such a bakground is attached with the message.

Such a feature will improve ergonomics.

Thank you

Regards

Ricky

[Hubenix]

Hello, today the same crave for Dark Mode came to me while working with TestStand 2020 and found existing solution that is good enough to compete with the upper one without the need to introduce 3rd party software.

Simply enable the Color filters shortcut ( and optionally select your preferred Color settings for the bars to recreate the results from the NegativeScreen app).

It's absolutely enough for me. I'm in love with that TestStand look...
It's time to #EngineerAmbitiously now!
Cheers!

[Mr._Jim]

TS2020, now with extra bleach!

I applaud the more contemporary UI, but oh so bright.

This is going to be an adjustment and I'm going to have to take breaks from staring at it.

Windows 10's Night Light (NI-Light!) feature helps. Normally I use that for late night development but I think I'm going to have to leave it on.

[Peluso]

Totally agree. so painful to use new TS 2020. No borders in step paremeters, icons are too small and monocoloured, background is "eye-burning-white"!

[jopexa]

You glorious mad lad.

[Jorr-El]

Another hack I found is to use an application called WindowTop (most of the features I am not interested in, but it does allow you to set individual windows to inverted colors, instead of affecting everything)

You can download the latest releases from the GitHub page here:
https://github.com/BiGilSoft/WindowTop/releases

This is what I use every day to save my eyes while using the TS Sequence Editor