How to change the style via plugin

Brad Robertson

Is there a way to change the current style / theme from a plugin?

I created two different themes for my plugin to use, Development.xml and Production.xml. I want it to be very obvious to developers when they’re looking at code in the production environment.

Claudia Frank

Hello @Brad-Robertson,

afaik there is no direct way, meaning there is no exposed function, to do it.
What could be done is a bit of a hack. Either use something like autoit (btw. never tried it myself)
to automate the task or write the automated task code yourself by

getting the menu handle
executing style configurator
using findwindow to get the newly created style configurator window
get combobox handle
selecting your theme
“press” save and close button.

As said, bit of a hack.
Maybe someone else has another or better idea how to solve this.

Cheers
Claudia

dail

You could also try to manually control the style for a specific language as well. You would have to catch certain events such as NPPN_BUFFERACTIVATED and NPPN_LANGCHANGED. Any time a certain file was shown, you would manually call Scintilla messages such as SCI_STYLESETFORE etc for all the styles your plugin uses. It is not the “recommended” way but may be what you need. Note that you won’t be able to modify this style through the style configurator.