README

Dahu is advanced color theme extension for Visual Studio Code.

Features

• Changing code editor, sidebar, status bar, tabs and panel background colors to whatever you like.
• Changing code syntax colors (class names, variables, keywords, functions, etc.) to whatever you like.
• Saving the current color combination to a preset and naming it whatever you like.
• Choosing a preset from saved ones and applying it.

The following image was used to generate the theme for Visual Studio Code.

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Language support

This extension currently offers code syntax highlighting support for these languages:

• C
• C#
• Go
• Java
• Python
• JavaScript, TypeScript
• PHP
• R
• Ruby
• Rust
• Shell

For other languages, it might not highlight the code syntax fully -> look for future updates.

Requirements

• Only Visual Studio Code is required to run the extension.

About color generation

This extension uses some APIs to provide functionality of generating colors from a base color or image. For generating color palette from a base color, we used Palette.es API, and for creating set of colors from a image we chose Color Thief API.

Extension Settings

TODO: add settings??

Running

• npm i
• npm run build
• F5
• in the new window shift + ctrl + p select Open webview for webview preview.

Notes for developers

Colors of the extension are automatically adapted based on the current vs code theme. To add more colors you can access global css variables in src/styles.css inside :root{}. More styles can be found at https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/theme-color. Change . to -. Enjoy!