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Dim color invert

RicardoGV1

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to set dark mode to the virtuoso windows, and this is what I got.


I did this by inverting all screen content, and changing some drf colors seems to work okey.
The only thing is when selecting an instance instead of dimming in black, the instances get brighter.

Same thing in the schematic view, there is a selected wire but all are the same color because of the dim



is there a way to invert the dimming colour? 

I've tried changing all display colors and look for a non private variable that sets this, but couldn't find anything. 


Regards,
R.Gómez


  • There is a set of change requests (CCR 2578506) asking for a proper "dark mode" in Virtuoso, and I've seen a prototype, but I'm not sure when it will make it into production. There's also an upcoming option (in the Virtuoso Studio release) which can cause the dimming to be in grey/gray rather than coloured/colored.

    However, I'd like to know what you're doing right now - how you've "inverted all screen content" - to make sure I understand what you've done.

    Andrew

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett
    Thanks for that information, I've asked my support about that Virtuoso Studio release, but is this an specific release version or they may find it by "Virtuoso Studio"?
     

    And about the color inversion. I used this project https://github.com/mlaily/NegativeScreen which calls the windows magnification API and sends a color transformation matrix. Those colors are applied to the complete screen. 
    Within virtuoso I've changed the background to white and changed some colors in the drf  to make those appear with the inverted colors 

    R.Gómez
  • in reply to RicardoGV1

    I approved one of your posts (the GitHub link was the problem) - please don't appeal the others as that will end up generating duplicates.

    Anyway, it's not really surprising that Virtuoso knows nothing about something else that is doing color transformation - I think there's very little chance of that working properly. Dimming can handle different background colour (which you can set for the canvas in Virtuoso), but a wholesale transformation of the color scheme would be problematic.

    Virtuoso Studio was launched at Cadence LIVE Silicon Valley in April, but will be released at the end of June 2023. See https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/custom-ic-analog-rf-design/virtuoso-studio.html

    Andrew

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Ohh got it, I'll keep going with this approach while that tool is released.
    Thanks a lot Andrew :)

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