DW CC 2017 - Color Coding & Mode-Aware Styles

[Paul-M]

Please can somebody post a working and tested example of use of mod-aware styles in Dreamweaver, I'm trying to get the color coding back to somehwre near useful how it used to be...

1. Yes I know where the less and json files in the dreamweaver config folder and how to edit themes
2. Yes I have edited a theme & made changes that work already
3. Yes I have read Brackets info on GIthib, Wiki etc
4. Don't post unless you know for sure your solution works, I have spent hours playing around with this in Dreamweaver and reading every bit of available information.

I have actually tested the following simple example in standalone Brackets and it works to color PHP code blocks:

in  package.json add addModeClass to enable mode-aware styles like so:

"theme": {

   "file": "theme.less",

   "dark": true,

  "addModeClass": true

Added to the theme css/less file:

.cm-m-clike {

   color: #6c9ef8;

}

This works and colours just PHP blocks in Brackets which makes life much easier if you are doing a lot of PHP coding. You might also want to look at class .cm-meta as well for consistency.

When I test the same method in Dreamweaver it doesn't work presumably because its and embedded Brackets and requires a different approach.

Can someone please post a tested and confirmed working example of how to implement the mode-ware styles inside Dreamweaver please .....

[Nancy OShea]

This theme is called RubyBlue from GitHub.  It is a high contrast DarkTheme.  

PHP code

JavaScript:

Is this sort of what you're looking for?

Nancy O.

[Paul-M]

It's not a theme I need .... I need to know how to implement mode-aware styles, it works in standalone Brackets, doesn't work in the integrated Dreamweaver/Brackets.... It allows for colors to be specefied for specific languages CSS, PHP, JT etc ....  Gives more control and allows to make PHP standout in a page for example.

[Nancy OShea]

Oh, I see what you're asking for now.    Different code color schemes depending on the type of code it is -- php, JS, CSS, etc....

Sorry, I can't help you with that.

Nancy O.

[Craig-Taylor]

You may want to check here although I'm not completely sure if this answers the question:\

Cheers,

Craig

[Nancy OShea]

Those are the old code colors inside XML files.

The new DW CC 2017 no longer uses XML files.  It now uses LESS files.

On Windows:  Program Files /Adobe/ Dreamweaver CC 2017/www/extensions/default/[Dark or Light]Theme/main.less and main.json.

For the time being, I'm using my older version of DW.  I'll let the bugs & features get sorted before I go back to it.

Nancy O.

[Paul-M]

Its a new system now based on the brackets engine, total waste of development time IMO and just makes a lot people's life very difficult.

What I need is an Adobe engineer to come on here and tell me how to implement Brackets 'mode-aware styles' inside of Dreamweaver - it's a feature of Brackets themes. Although I've never used Brackets before I downloaded it, wasted a lot of time reading Wikis etc on on Brackets themes and testted my own custom theme in Brackets using some simple mode-aware styles to highlight PHP code, it works in Brackets, doesn't work in Dreamweaver.

I've wasted a lot of time, much like Adobe have on the Brackets integration.

[Paul-M]

Please post a vote here so we can hopefully get full flexibility back for code colouring:

Restore Full Code Colouring Flexibility – Adobe Dreamweaver CC: Feature Ideas

The code colouring apart from being removed from the options because it's a half finished Brackets integration lacks serious flexibility, no language specific option even if you are prepared to edit the LESS theme file directly has been included.

I had an official response from Adobe that language-specific code colouring which is a feature in Brackets, is NOT included in the brackets integration with Dreamweaver.

[Preran · Accepted solution]

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

[Paul-M]

Please post a vote here folks so we can hopefully get full flexibility back for code colouring:

Restore Full Code Colouring Flexibility – Adobe Dreamweaver CC: Feature Ideas

The code colouring apart from being removed from the options because it's a half finished Brackets integration lacks serious flexibility, no language specific option even if you are prepared to edit the LESS theme file directly has been included.

I had an official response from Adobe that language-specific code colouring which is a feature in Brackets, is NOT included in the brackets integration with Dreamweaver.