Appearance

Modern dark theme vs. Classic

BmsTWO ships a Modern dark theme (on by default) and a Classic mode that restores the original BmsONE look exactly.

How to use: Preferences → General → Modern dark theme (requires restart). Turn it off for Classic.

What Modern changes:

Fusion style + a centralized dark palette applied app-wide.
Tiered gridlines — faint subdivisions building up to strong measure lines — and subtle alternating per-measure shading, so dense charts stay readable.
Rounded note objects; long notes read as connected capsules.
Per-channel color-coding with equal-luminance categorical colors; notes in non-current channels are dimmed and the bright accent is reserved for the selection / playhead.
Panel polish — row hover, slim rounded scrollbars, tighter menu/header/dock spacing, subtle dividers.
Monospace for numeric / tick fields (note length, BGA/Stop tables, the Statistics and Selection panels).
High-DPI crispness via pass-through device-pixel rounding.

How it works: A central Theme object is read by both the widget layer (palette/stylesheet) and the painter (gridlines, notes). Classic mode simply leaves the native style/palette in place and uses the original drawing path.

Per-channel custom colors

What: Override a channel's note color — handy for reading a MOD dump's many channels (e.g. drums red, piano green).

How to use: Right-click a channel header → Set Color… (or Clear Color to revert to the automatic categorical color).

How it works: The color is stored on the channel as a non-standard x_color #RRGGBB field that round-trips through save/load. The note painter prefers a channel's custom color when set, falling back to the default lane color otherwise. Changes are undoable.

This page is synced from docs/Appearance.md in the BmsTWO repo.