Oh, that’s normal! It’s not going to change your board appearance because there would be no good way of doing that dynamically. Think of it more like how Preview works with PDF in dark mode. The window, menus and everything are dark, but the PDF isn’t going to change.
You can make dark themed boards and style sets though. I use dark mode exclusively, so my default Scapple setup is geared toward that by using a dark background and styles that look good with it. Here’s one such example board:
dark_rose.scap (9.4 KB)
If you set up something you would like to work with as a default, rather than the shock light defaults:
- In the Inspector: Document Settings area, click the
Set As Defaultsbutton after picking a background colour, and optionally a default text/line colour (note that “Clear” means black or white depending upon the background). - In settings, General tab, click the
Set From Current Documentbutton to make the board’s styles your defaults for new boards.