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Dreamweaver 2017 code coloring on MacOS Sierra?

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I am trying to customize my editor code colors. There is a Brackets theme solution for people on Windows, scroll down to Per Berntsen Nov 3, 2016 8:15 AM:

Re: Code colouring in dreamweaver 2017

My question: does anyone know where exactly (in which folder path) one can find the main.less and package.json Brackets style files on the MacOS Sierra operating system?

Or, how to edit Brackets code color theme for Dreamweaver 2017 in MacOS Sierra?

Thanks,

Dean

Dreamweaver | Mac OS issues

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Correct answer Preran

It's still limited regardless, can't do language specific code colouring.

Hi everyone,

Please update to the latest version of Dreamweaver 2017.0.1 where most issues with code coloring have been addressed.

See Dreamweaver 2017.0.1 is now live for more info.

This document https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/customize-code-coloring.html has been updated to reflect changes.

Thanks,

Preran

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kratika

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Hi All,

We have started working on “Code Color Customization” improvements by adding support for customization of generic and language specific colors.

We have further stabilized the code coloring feature in our latest Prerelease build 15333.

 You can refer to below thread for more details on code coloring customization improvements. https://forums.adobeprerelease.com/dwalpha/discussion/467/dreamweaver-build-15333-is-now-available#l...

Please join Dreamweaver beta program from below link and try out the feature.

https://www.adobeprerelease.com/beta/9EB451B5-D2E8-46E5-AFA2-78C85442FFA2/participate/CD0C95AA-6274-...

Please go ahead and try out the build and let inflow your thoughts/suggestions. Looking forward to your valuable feedback.

Thanks 
 Dreamweaver Team

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Kratika Agarwal

Community Manager

Hello,

We have started working on “Code Coloring Customization” improvements by adding support for customization of generic and language specific colors and the changes are available in our latest Prerelease drop.

With this improvement you will be able to customize Code Colors in Dreamweaver Preferences --> Interface window.

Please join Dreamweaver beta program from below link and try out the feature.

https://www.adobeprerelease.com/beta/9EB451B5-D2E8-46E5-AFA2-78C85442FFA2/participate/CD0C95AA-6274-...

Thanks

Dreamweaver Team

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fruf2992

Participant

The new solution works for me. Editing CSS is not difficult. But NOT EASY at all to understand what you change. Modify one parameter at a time to see what changed... No color picker ! This sounds like "Here is the tool. You got what you want, it does not interest us.".

OK it works...

I expected nicer and better from Adobe. Disappointed.

Francesco

SuhasYogin

Adobe Employee

Hi Franceso,

You should see the Color Picker working for you - delete the color value and start-typing from #:

I realize this is a bit of a workaround, we've filed a bug.

Regards,

Suhas Yogin

Dreamweaver Team

CelsoPecuraro

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Dreamweaver does not have a mechanism for learning a developer personality, so Adobe tries to guess the personality of the developer, based on what? Each developer is unique in its personality. So Adobe, please stop try to reinvent the wheel in the basic features of the application. You did the same when removed the old collapsing tool (a very good tool and very useful for many people) in 2015.

If I'm using an old tool, that means it's important to me. It's really frustrating to see Adobe take another step back with experienced developers and receive complaints after launch new versions. I use dreamweaver for a long time, but it is increasingly a canned application that can not be customized according to our work, according to our personality (off course we personalize with our like in search of more productivity and not a preciousness).

And before anyone says "you can customize in the main.less file .." I answer: yes, it is possible, I read about, but I'm going to waste more time. My Dreamweaver 2015 was completely colorful custom for my use. Common sense of programs says that Dreamweaver 2017 should get obtained my preferences from the old version. That's why I paid Creative Cloud, to easy my work.

[Addedd in JAN-16-2017]

I abandoned the use of dreamweaver 3 days ago. It's absurd Adobe put concepts of Bracket Editor in Dreamweaver. I paid CC for practicality.

Well, I'm using Sublime Text now, it was hard to set up for my taste, but, if I would waste time reconfiguring Dreamweaver, so why not waste time to configure a very very cheaper editor, and cool? DW in my opinion is going to be an editor for starters and designers only, not for experienced programmers.

Adios dreamweaver.

Thank you Adobe.

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fruf2992

Participant

I installed CC 2015 back.

CC 2017 without custom code coloring ? Why? Forget it!

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McKableGirl

Participant

Upvoted the "bring back color coding" idea. Why would you take this feature away? It makes no sense. Now I am having a really hard time reading my code. Even free TextWrangler has different color themes and you can edit them. I'm probably switching back until this is fixed too.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Brackets is the new code editor so the color schemes are no longer handled by XML files. Code colors are handled by LESS and JSON files now. I'm guessing the team didn't have enough time to bring old color themes into a new code format.

In the meantime, I grabbed a Brackets code color theme from GitHub and manually installed it in my program files folder. It took all of 2 minutes. See link below (reply #9) for details.

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Nancy O.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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boulderpoetAuthor

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HI Nancy, Just wanted to point out that your solution works specifically for Windows users.

For Mac users, you need to access the LESS and JSON files differently, please see my accepted solution to this question: Dreamweaver 2017 code coloring on MacOS Sierra? i

--dean

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boulderpoetAuthor

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From the Dreamweaver Team here some work-arounds for code coloring, (You can also vote at that page to have code coloring returned to pre-2017 version):

"We’re reviewing the idea of how best to re-introduce the custom code coloring. In the meanwhile, please see this Help page: https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/customize-code-coloring.html. This should help you further customize dark and light themes, as a workaround."

--dean

llewopnodnarb

Participant

Why would they remove the color themes from this version? Seems like a feature you would want to keep. Now only having "light" and "dark" settings seems like a step backwards. Does anyone have the link to vote this back in?

Jon Fritz

Community Expert

From what I've heard from the people who were involved in the Beta, it was there, but was removed prior to release. With all of the other issues the program has, there may be a fairly welcomed dot release in the near future. Dreamweaver Help | Known issues | Dreamweaver CC 2017

There are several vote-able feature requests in the Ideas section dealing with CC2017's short-comings, a few have to do with the lack of color options: Dreamweaver Ideas

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jonothonrossi

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I knew updating so soon was a stupid move!! Idiot!!

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qasimh51626860

Participant

can anyone tell how to change the theme of Dreamweaver...
i was pick the black color by mistake while installing it... now i want to change it to white