It would be fantastic if I could to set the colour of certain folders to aid in visual separation and navigation. Such as /public to red, /resources to blue. I'm used to Photoshop's ability to do this for layers/groups/folders and it makes it easier to navigate when you have the folders expanded and where the break points are to collapse/expand etc. My app is starting to get big and I'm wasting valuable seconds hunting files down! Ctrl+P search helps, but still, I'm a dumb human!
Surely in this magical, fully editable program there is a way? I can't find it if there us, so here I am...
As of the most recent version of Sublime Text (currently development build 3154) there is no API available that would allow core Sublime or a third party package to style the sidebar in this manner. The only visual changes that can be made are theme related, which cover the side bar and it's layout/display as a whole without the ability to target specific files or folders.
You're not the first person to want that particular feature, though. The issue tracker has an issue/feature request for Sidebar API enhancements that covers this proposed addition.
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Edit: For clarity, I am not asking how to turn the sidebar on.
Not sure what to call them but this is what I mean:
In red, is what I'm calling a "folder guide". Just a nice line to help your eye better visually track the hierarchy of folders.
I'm using the Cobalt2 theme and haven't looked into alternate themes yet but it would be nice if it was possible to add something like this without changing to a new theme.
It's not possible (at least at the time of this writing) to have hierarchy lines in the tree view of the side bar such as in your image above. There is an open issue in the unofficial issue tracker for it, however.
That issue has been open for a while, but prior to the recent-ish release of Sublime Text 3 a lot of work went into the sidebar behind the scenes, so possibly something like this might be added in a future update.
Is it OK to install ST3 on Mac OSX 10.11.2 which has ST2 installed? and what things I need to look out for?
Thanks
I mean your only going to get benefits as you go up the chain so here are some(from hundreds):
Speed. Startup time, file load time, and Replace All have all been
significantly improved. If you're using OS X with a Retina display,
then you'll find huge rendering speed improvements too.
Symbol Indexing, for Goto Definition and Goto Symbol in Project.
Complementing these are the Jump Forward and Jump Back features.
Improved HTML Editing, including tag and attribute completion as well
as automatic tag closing.
Improved Project and Pane management, including multiple workspaces
for a single project.
Richer API. Plugins are better insulated from the application, and
now have a broader and fully threadsafe API to work with.
I have sublime text 3, and its the best code-editor ive used. Dont worry get sublime text 3 as it will only get better :)
I am using Cordova, Phonegap and Ratchet for an iOS application.
How can I have additional icons with last version of Ratchet?
We tried to use bootstrap icon set but it has some kind of conflict with Ratchet CSS.
I added ratchet-ios7.css from Github, and it seems have more icons but I can not use them and the documentation link of the package is not working too.
Is there any solutions?
I had a similar problem, and managed to fix it as below. BUT, I didn't use this ratchet-ios7.css, and after looking a bit into that, it doesn't look like my answer will apply to that part of your question. This answer is specifically to add icons to the ratchet icons.
So then:
Go to http://icomoon.io/app/
Import the ratchicons.svg (found in the ratchet/ratchicons directory), and import the .svg of the icon set that you want to add to it. (They also have a bunch of their own icon sets as well)
Select any/all of the icons you want included (I suggest at least including all of the ratchicons, just to make sure it doesn't mess up with how the Ratchet stuff works and so you won't have to edit it yourself). When you're satisfied, click the "Font" button at the bottom of the window, and you'll see all the selected icons and their codes (the same ones that can be seen at the bottom of ratchet.css).
In the top left, make sure the "U+" is toggled to true. If it is a darker shade of grey and you see their unicode attributes underneath the icons (ex. "e600"), then it is set to true. I'm not entirely sure what the "fi" toggle does in terms of how it affects the code, but I just left it alone (just to play it safe).
Go through the list and change the names of any icons you want, if they don't accurately convey what they are and/or if they don't conform to the naming convention.
Also in the top-left, click the Preferences button, and in the Font Name input field, replace "icomoon" with "ratchicons". I don't remember if I changed the Class Prefix field or not, though I don't think it particularly matters (someone feel free to correct me on that). Lastly, make sure "Encode & Embed Font in CSS" is checked. Click the "X" button in the top-right.
When everything looks schpick-n-schpam, click the download button in the footer, and you'll get a zip folder.
Unpack that sucker and inside that you will see several folders/files; the one we're looking for is "fonts". Open that one. Inside that you will see 4 files, each one named ratchicons and each with a different file extension (all of which are the ones we need!). Copy all 4 files.
Nagivate to your ratchicons folder (the one you got the initial ratchicons.svg from), and just rename all these to something else (ex. "ratchicons.woff" -> "ratchicons_old.woff"), just to keep the working ones available. Now Paste the new files here.
Now, editing the ratchet.css file directly isn't the best practice, but this doesn't pose any problems as far as I've experienced, so we're going to do just that. Open up ratchet.css and go right to the bottom. You'll see all the .icon- css selectors that come standard with ratchet, and now we're going to add our new ones. Go back to the folder you downloaded and unpacked and open style.css. See all those .icon-*:before{} selectors, like the ones in ratchet.css? Copy all of those, and paste them over the ones in ratchet.css
You should now be able to use your new icons in the exact same way as the standard ratchet icons! Just use the icon's name you gave on the website in the class="" attribute. If you need to change a name or something, just make the edits in the ratchet.css. Also, for anything I missed and/or if you're curious, here's the docs for IcoMoon: http://icomoon.io/#docs
Update
As pointed out in the comments, in the unicode strings, the numbers in the code must be higher than 255. Otherwise, they will conflict with normal ASCII character unicodes. I'm not sure exactly what the lower limit is, but if you stick to much higher numbers (500s-900s) you shouldn't have to worry about it.
I've always used TextWrangler/ Notepad++ to develop websites from scratch. I'm now coding what I'd say are very advanced websites this way.
I want to know if it's efficient to do things this way and whether I should learn DreamWeaver and use that
I use Dreamweaver, basically because I'm a designer not a coder. I find it useful to use Dreamweaver, because it has all the tools you need to create a website. Dreamweaver has the ability to be a WYSIWYG in the "Design" mode, but you can easily switch to the raw code and mess about with the code. Which is what I tend to do anyway.
Dreamweaver isn't a cheat way of web design, it is a tool. Much like a pencil and paper would be to an artist, or a hammer to a joiner. It's not what is used to create a website that should be ridiculed or the designer who uses Dreamweaver should be abused. But in fact the website itself, and the application of web design skills/knowledge.
Dreamweaver has it's own project file system, so you know exactly what is in your project and what isn't. You can also see all the external files that are linked in one HTML file, such as a JavaScript file. You can swap between the source code of the HTML file and the external file source code, with one click and with no other open "windows".
Dreamweaver is quite easy to learn (in my opinion), and should at least have a fair trial run.
If I were you, I would download a trial version of Dreamweaver, and try it out.
I hope I've helped in some way.
There are code editors with assists that are far better than DreamWeaver, like Espresso, Brackets or the upcoming TweakStyle.
Each software have a different added value depending on what you're searching for.
I can't seem to figure out how to change the menu color or add a background to the menu bar in Gantry 4 for Joomla. Tired of the gray or dark gray default.
I could change the font and selection through the .less file but not the menu itself.
The documentation on the Gantry website is too general.
Thank You in advance.
Also check: menu-light.less & menu-dark.less in the less\ directory.
The folks at RocketTheme don't recommend editing the compiled CSS (but it works great as #Adriana pointed out).
Hi Gantry framework for joomla as you probably notice uses Less to really understand how to change things on the template you first have to learn how less works even that Gantry compiles the less files for you. Less it is fantastic so it worth it. Basically you use a code to define css in a clever way much more economic and then you compile this into more efficient css files
If you change the compiled files as our friends are saying here make not sense at all because as soon you compile again (and you will) this files will be override and all your work lose.
I will give you the direction and you will see that it is not that difficult as look.
1- check the menu you had selected on your Gantry template under Templates Manager - Style - menu style.
2- on your less folder you will see a less file for each of the menu styles with the main variables
for example menu-dark.less try to make sense of the variables and the colors and change them to see what is what.
3- on the same folder you have menu.less and there is where the magic is done using the variables from the previous file. You will see that for example define first level of menu you will have something like:
&.l1 {
> li.active {
background: #menuActiveBack;
So that menuActiveBack variable will be the background value of the active li of the level 1.
4- the last part will be the menu-hovers.less that i thinks it is over complicate things because it is not a need to have a different file to do the hovers but there it is.
You can control CSS compression, Compile Wait Time and Debug Header, as well as manually clear the cache with the Clear Cache button at Extensions → Template Manager → gantry → Advanced → Less Compiler.
more info at: ganty less documentation
Hope it helps to start with....
Happy coding,
Eduardo
it took me a while maybe half an hour to go through the "menu" css file in the "css-compiled" folder.
You can find all the css to alter the background and colors of Gantry's default menu.. I'm using Gantry v4 also.
Go here:
Joomla>templates>gantry>css-compiled>menu-675c76.....
Please view my image to see my results:
http://dream2unite.com/images/misc/GANTRY-MENU-675c76.png
Use FireBug or similar to find the default CSS styling.
Create a file /templates/gantry/css/gantry-custom.css and add your own CSS to override the default CSS.
This is a better method than editing compiled or other template less or css files which can be overwritten during compilation or when the template is updated.