Dark Mode for Quicken for Windows (6 Merged Votes)

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  • Fletch200
    Fletch200 Member ✭✭✭
    edited January 14

    @Chris_QPW - here's his original post, because I needed a reminder too. I'm tempted to try this.

    "https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7856333/dark-mode-for-quicken-for-windows-6-merged-votes/p12"

    Ok, the URL didn't work as expected, copy/paste the one above - it's a few posts down on that page.

    https://community.quicken.com/discussion/7856333/dark-mode-for-quicken-for-windows-6-merged-votes
  • J.A. Clark
    J.A. Clark Member ✭✭✭

    Come on Quicken - step up and get this done. Dark mode is needed for more then just a cool look. There are many, including me, who have health conditions that would benefit from dark mode.

  • Gene in Florida
    Gene in Florida Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭

    As Isomeme suggested in a previous post you can change the color filters in Windows:

    In Windows 11, Go to "Settings > Accessibility > Color filters",

    Toggle on color filters

    Select Inverted.

    Below that turn on: Keyboard shortcut for color filters.

    My shortcut is windows+ctrl+C

    The shortcut will make it easy to turn off/on the color change but it affects all of your windows not just Quicken. Which can be a good thing where ever dark mode is not supported and white backgrounds hurt your eyes.

    It reminds me of early versions of windows having a color option called Hot Dog Stand. Not my preferred color choices but I must admit, the dark background is easy on the eyes especially if you like working a computer in low lighting like I do. Or if you get Aura Migraines. I sure wish there was a way to only affect my Quicken window and not my other windows. Maybe the Quicken developers and Microsoft could join forces to build a similar feature that only affects Quicken. And maybe with better colors.

    The green color below gets converted to pink and other places brown. Blue text gets converted to yellow. The red dollar amount gets converted to light blue.

    Inverted.jpg
  • Chris_QPW
    Chris_QPW Quicken Windows Subscription Member ✭✭✭✭
    https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20532172#Comment_20532172

    There are a few assumptions here that I don't think you are taking into account. The first seems to be an assumption that the developers are "highly skilled" (for a decade sold, nitch market product and wouldn't look that good on a resume), and the second is that "they have as much time as needed to change what they want". For the Quicken Windows developers I doubt either of these are true. What's more I doubt it has even occurred to them to try do this in a "hacked fashion", not to mention I'm sure whoever wrote AutoHotKey had to discover many low-level quirks of Windows to get this done which a Quicken Windows developer doesn't have time to do.

    I think the best approach anyone in this thread can take would be to take you up on your offer to give them the AutoHotKey script. Or use one of the other options recommended in this thread.

    And with that I will leave it at that.

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  • J.A. Clark
    J.A. Clark Member ✭✭✭

    I would be happy to provide the AutoHotkey script I use to anyone that wants it. There is a bit of front end work to do first, i.e., install AutoHotkey, etc. But after that, this script is virtually 'invisible' (as much as a dark mode method can be invisible :-) ).

  • Fletch200
    Fletch200 Member ✭✭✭

    @J.A. Clark do you have any screen shots you can share showing the result? Or is it essentially equivalent to the invert method but only applies when Quicken is run? Reading up on NegativeScreen, it sounds like more control over the inversion is possible compared to that available via Windows Magnifier. Provided one can figure out the "formula" 😁

  • J.A. Clark
    J.A. Clark Member ✭✭✭

    Providing a screenshot of Quicken probably would not be a good idea - security/privacy wise :-)

    The Dark Mode AutoHotkey is setup to define any executable file and place that app in dark mode. One could use it just for Quicken or use it as I do, put into dark mode a number of various apps that I use that don't have their own native dark theme.

    The formula is not difficult to find the correct color you are looking for. For example, finding the opposite color of blue can be determined with a quick Google search - orange is the opposite of blue. There are various websites that you can define an RGB or Hex color and it will provide you the opposite color. The script is very versatile and I have updated it to use with Windows 11 as Microsoft (in its infinite wisdom) changed some of the 'hooks' used to color various components.

    Hope this explains this script a bit more for those who have not worked with AutoHotkey scripts :-)

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