XE8 – Get rid of the wrong font size and blue toolbar

With the new RAD Studio XE8, Embarcadero thought that Delphi looked too modern and the old CDE/Motif Java Swing style would look much more appropriate. XE8 also increased the font size of the main form including the menu bar, structure pane, object inspector, project manager, tool palette, call stack, …

Thanks to Daniel Wolf’s German blog post, I was able to restore the XE7 style. Unfortunately there is no simple configuration dialog in the IDE, so you have to make some changes to the registry by hand or download Daniel’s “wuppdi·StylerXE8” tool.

1. Quit XE8
2. Create a new file XE7StyleForXE8.reg file and paste the following content into it
   Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
   
   [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\16.0\ModernTheme]
   "FontName"="Segoe UI"
   "FontSize"=dword:00000009
   "MainToolBarColor"="clBtnFace"
3. Save the file and double click it so that the registry changes are applied to XE8.
4. Start XE8

The IDE uses the following default values if the “ModernTheme” registry key doesn’t exist.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\16.0\ModernTheme]
"FontName"="Segoe UI"
"FontSize"=dword:0000000a
"MainToolBarColor"="clGradientActiveCaption"

This is also described in the DocWiki.

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