NS2 Screen Shots

vining

I don't mean to sound critical but could some of you guys add a little color to your work spaces. Maybe cuz I'm old and my eyes are failing but doesn't the bright white backgrounds effect and fatigue your eyes after long periods of programming.

Here's an example of what I look at.

JustinC

I refused to look at white all the time, so I changed mine to the inverse.

ryanww

How do you go abouts doing that? Thanks, Ryan

vining

While in NS2 go to Settings>Preferences>Editor.

You can select colors for everything displayed.

DHawthorne

INteresting how many don't like the white background. I'm no fan of it myself; having worked a long time with the old Axcent environment, I started out making Studio as close to that as I could. But there are more elements, and it has evolved a bit:

ericmedley

This could be sorta a fun thread.

here's mine.


I tend to like the brighter colors and a light-grey background. My eyesight is pretty bad and the higher contrast tends to tire my eyes more than the brightness. I'm on a 19" LCD monitor too. I suppose that has something to do with it.

JohnMichnr

Ya know - I worked with a consultant last year who asked that I change my Touchpanel background from While to Blue. He was older and had some cataracts and found the high contrast between black text/white background to be difficult to read. White text,blue background was much easier. I have never had anybody ask for that before, nor have I thought of it.

I am still stuck with teh white background on NS2 - just can't shift off of it. Mabye if I just start with light gray I can work myself up to something else.

I do use black background on Autocad for teh drawing surface, for some reason that makes more sense to me. (got no reason why)

Hey - all you using dark backgrounds, what is your overall lighting environment like? Dark rooms, lite rooms, direct lighting, or whatever....I know I try to keep my overall space darker, with directed lights on work surface (keyboards)

DHawthorne

My work computer is a laptop, so I am dealing with an LCD display. My eyes are light-sensitive (it's a genetic thing, my mother literally had to wear rose-colored glasses in daylight, and I can't go outdoors without sunglasses, even on overcast days). I found it necessary to have a dark background, just to cut back on the overall brightness. I even find these forums difficult to look at for very long.

In my case, the environmental light doesn't really apply. My room has standard ceiling panel flouresent fixtures, the kinds with 4 4' tubes in a panel. I replaced the ballast in the one over my desk with a high frquency one to eliminate detectable flicker, and dropped it from 4 tubes to 2, using natural spectrum tubes. But from where I sit, the computer screen is a stronger light source.

The biggest problem for me is not actually the brightness in and of itself - it's the after-imaging. The white background makes a dark after-image, and normal head movements superimpose it over the text, causing it to appear blurry. This is compounded by allergies that tend to blur my vision as well, and I find myself blinking a lot and straining to read. Maqking the background dark eliminates most of the problem.

ericmedley

I too have your typical pad ceiling florescent lighting. I also, like DHawthorne have light sensetivity. (not as bad as his mother apparently)

I have to augment my lighting with a few incandescent lights. If I run on just straight florescents, I find that I have a screaming headache by the end of the day. Adding a few incans seems to help. I have a small desk clip on lamp that shines in the general area of my screen and and desk lamp that shines on my work area.

Perhaps I should look into the high frequency ballast.

Chip Moody

I haven't done anything with the non-editor windows, but yes - for that white has always been too much, but I didn't care for black either. I went with this:

- Chip

jjames

I had a similar thread going a while back (http://www.amxforums.com/showthread.php?t=1170) and suggested sharing the settings file since it was a nice added feature started in I believe NS2.4. Here is again a screenshot of what I use, but after looking at a few on here, I may be switching my colors around.

Also, this seems not to be a problem, but may I suggest that everyone at least "censor" out the IP addresses of the system unless it's not the WAN IP. I like to go as far as to even remove the name from the screenshot. I know we're all professionals here, but all it takes is one slip of an IP address, and a cocky or irate programmer to mess up someones work. Plus, I think it's priority numero uno to give privacy to the client.

mpullin

Here's my color scheme. I prefer a black background as well, it's much easier to look at.