Teststand Editor Pain icons menue color

[paloff]

I upgraded form TS19 to TS23 and find it strenuous to work with this editor-GUI coloring.

Is there a way to change the Editor skin to a more apropriate coloring?

Thank your for any sugestions.

[Mathieu_R.]

Hello,

There is a suggestion here (may 2019).

Marked as 'under consideration' (january 2023).

You may add a kudo and check the comments, there is some trick and workarround to get a dark mode.

Best regards,

[paloff]

Thank you for the fast answer. This solution is ok, but improves not the readability as I was used in Teststand 2019.
I can't understand that NI did release such a bad User Interface with no posibility to change the skin including icons, pane frames, shadowing and so  on.
I hope NI finds fast a better solution for the next release in Teststand 2024. I will switch back to TS2019 until this happens. Unfortunatelly I still have to pay for the licence😕

[CDietz]

After working with TestStand 2017 for many years, I have now used TestStand 2023 for the first time. The colorless, black symbols in the new TestStand Editor are really awful, quick comprehension and recognition are hardly possible anymore. This colorless user interface could only have been designed by a depressed person! Let's hope that future versions will be more user-friendly again.

[HarshaBhushan]

Thanks for the feedback. We will be incrementally addressing this. TestStand 2024 Q4 will have some visual improvements to make the menu bar & tool bar more readable (bigger icons, better spacing). We're also making some minor tweaks to the colors in background and the borders to make the editor easy on the eyes.

[Trebilic]

I have experimented with this and it seems to work. My solution was to copy all of the TS2016 icons over the top of the TS2022 ones located here: %teststand%\Components\Icons. This will not help you much if you don't have access to earlier TS versions, but for those of you that do it might be a hack worth trying. Be sure to save off the original ones somewhere first and do not try to just swap out the whole folder because the later versions of TS have added new features and new icons. You can only update the ones that existed in both versions. Additionally, if you are feeling ambitious the icons can be edited directly with off the shelf icon editors if you wanted a totally custom look.

Our test team is so against the newer semi-monochromatic UI scheme that they have refused for the past 3 years to update to TS 2022 simply because it is so difficult to get used to and harder to author sequences in.   

[Oli_Wachno]

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@Trebilic wrote:

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Our test team is so against the newer semi-monochromatic UI scheme that they have refused for the past 3 years to update to TS 2022 simply because it is so difficult to get used to and harder to author sequences in.  

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 my 2cents (this is a highly subjective topic)

I am working in both worlds, I don't find any of the Editor UIs very appealing (and I have seen far worse elsewhere )

After all, it's about the willingness of working with it! 

Still, you have the freedom of creating an own Sequence Editor (or have it programmed by a contractor) 😉