I no longer use the mp3tag, because it dazzles me and my eyes hurt. Please dark theme option.

It's now official: I've added support for Dark Mode with the latest version Mp3tag v3.09 (starting with Windows 10).

A quick update: I had several setbacks this past week, one of which that I've learned that there is no easy way to enable dark mode for checkboxes and group frames. Those are widely used in Mp3tag's option dialogs — so a solution was and is necessary. I've started implementing a custom drawn button…

Thats good news Florian. This link to a github project called DarkUI may be of interest! It looks to be a DarkUI built on top of WinForms. Using this library all the forms & controls etc are already dark themed. What are your thoughts?

Thanks for the link. I'm using plain Win32 in C++, so this project is not directly related.

I've just released the latest beta version Mp3tag v3.08a with support for Windows 10 dark mode. It's highly experimental, but I hope it's working out nicely. Would appreciated to know what you all think about it.

Well well welll. finally some darkness here :heart_eyes: Many thanks, I do like it. Maybe later in the future a "switch" to turn it on or off will maybe help some users, but I do like the darkness :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Thanks for all the updates al those years !

I tried the dark mode with 3.08a - but I find the status bar now fairly hard to read: at least when switching between "Standard App Mode" dark and bright, it looks like the status bar does not get repainted: after switching from bright to dark, the numbers remain black and when reverting the setting…

Strange... I don't have that problem with the statusbar... [image] Edit... okay, I never switch from bright to dark... I always have dark modus on :smiley:

I've improved the switching behavior with the latest beta Mp3tag v3.08b . My guess is, that most have dark mode either enabled or disabled and switching while having apps open is not one of the common use cases.

It looks awful - please revert back to white Just kidding - HA HA - the most important moment of my life - NOT KIDDING - but I did not get a personalized telegram informing about it; sad, so very sad... With all seriousness: Now all those unusual signs that I use for extra markers in …

I would also like to point out that the right edge of Tag Panel in docked mode is invisible - there is no vertical line Thus it is even harder now then before [ REQUEST: make it easier to grab the Tag Panel ] to expand window of Tag Panel to the right side

Please dark theme option

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Florian September 4, 2021, 9:54am 36

Thanks for pointing! I've changed that with Mp3tag v3.08c.