Question about the Dark Mode's dark scrollbars and toolbars

[Vitalii Dovgan]

The Dark Mode in Notepad++ makes both the background and the scrollbars dark, as on the screenshot.

The dark background is applied to the title bars of Notepad++‘es plugins and to some scrollbars in plugins’ windows.
However, it is not applied to some plugins’ toolbars and to a scrollbar of a RichEdit control as can be seen on the another screenshot.

Is there some specific code that needs to be added to plugins to fully support the Dark Mode?

[PeterJones]

@vitalii-dovgan ,

Well, as of v8.4.1, there is the new messages NPPM_ISDARKMODEENABLED and NPPM_GETDARKMODECOLORS (which will eventually be documented at the usermanual, the next time it’s published)… but I don’t know if that’s sufficient for you to then change the colors of the toolbar yourself. (And, of course, it won’t work before v8.4.1)

[rdipardo]

@vitalii-dovgan,
watch this space: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/11711

[Vitalii Dovgan]

@rdipardo
Wow, this is an impressive pull request! It definitely shows that the Dark Mode is not so easy to implement!

[PeterJones]

@peterjones said in Question about the Dark Mode's dark scrollbars and toolbars:

which will eventually be documented at the usermanual, the next time it’s published)

It has been published:

• NPPM_ISDARKMODEENABLED
• NPPM_GETDARKMODECOLORS

[Vitalii Dovgan]

Since Notepad++ 8.4.4 enhanced Dark Mode, the plugins’ docked dialogs seem to stop receiving the WM_CTLCOLOREDIT message. Is it something expected? If so, what is the alternative way of providing a custom colors for EDIT controls?

[rdipardo]

Possibly related: Plugin rendered wrong since v8.4.3