Articles Migrating your Editor Colors to Delphi 10.4 Sydney by Lars Fosdal

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Migrating your Editor Colors to Delphi 10.4 Sydney
Lars Fosdal - 04/Jun/2020

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RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney introduces Custom themes for editor colors.

Here is how to migrate your 10.3 settings to 10.4.

First, we make a custom color theme in 10.4 – go to Options | User Interface | Editor | Color.

With the current colors, just click on [Save As] and and give your personal scheme a name. I called mine Lars.

This creates a Registry branch, named

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\21.0\Editor\Highlight\Custom themes\Lars

In RegEdit, go to (i.e. the Rio branch)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\20.0\Editor\Highlight

Export to a file, for example: MyColors.reg

In MyColors.reg, you’ll see

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\20.0\Editor\Highlight]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\20.0\Editor\Highlight\Additional search match highlight]
... and so on

Now, Open MyColors.reg in Notepad, search for “20.0\Editor\Highlight\” and replace it with “21.0\Editor\Highlight\Custom themes\Lars”.

Add the two branch paths for good measure.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\21.0\Editor\Highlight]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\21.0\Editor\Highlight\Custom themes]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\21.0\Editor\Highlight\Custom themes\Lars]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\21.0\Editor\Highlight\Custom themes\Lars\Additional search match highlight]
... and so on

Import the file into the registry,

Restart the 10.4, go to Options | User Interface | Editor | Color and pick the custom theme “Lars”.

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