Colored Window Theme in Pharo?

Question

How do I switch to the colored window theme in Pharo?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 27 '11 at 02:06

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Not sure which theme you mean but have you tried

world menu -> System -> Settings -> Appearance -> Morphic -> User interface theme?

The select box will let you choose the window color theme.

edited Dec 27 '11 at 02:06

akuhn

answered Dec 21 '11 at 09:25

Max Leske

Thank you—works for most windows, but shouldn’t the browser window be green? I get them in gray, how can I fix this? – akuhn Dec 23 '11 at 01:41
As I said, I'm not sure which theme you mean. Is it that flat one with the green OB browser windows and grey Monticello windows from Squeak? – Max Leske Dec 23 '11 at 08:30
Yes, the theme with the colored windows as in Squeak. I used your approach to set the theme to Squeak but the system browser windows are still grey instead of green (for most other windows the colors seem to work). – akuhn Dec 27 '11 at 02:05
Apparently, there are quite some `patchworkUIThemeColor` methods missing on the class side. For example in OBSystemBrowser etcetera. Without these methods the windows are just gray. Maybe you can update your answer to include that! – akuhn Nov 13 '12 at 00:07

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 21 '11 at 11:21

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Or...by code... execute: XXXTheme beCurrent.

answered Dec 21 '11 at 11:21

There seems to be no `XXXTheme` in my image. – akuhn Dec 23 '11 at 01:48
Search for "Theme" in Finder and you will see which themes you actually have, and do e.g: BlueUITheme beCurrent – martineg Feb 09 '12 at 15:59

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 09 '12 at 06:49

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Best neat way to do this is to install the TWM (Tiled Windows Manager) and use its theme.

That the closest you'll get to a squeak colorful windows meets pharo theme.

You can get the theme without activating TWM in the prefs (although TWM is cool).

answered Sep 09 '12 at 06:49

philippeback

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 31 '12 at 06:47

It is a setting and as such you can select it from the settings tool

Right click on the Pharo desk to open the world menu -> System -> Settings -> Appearance -> User interface theme

Themes are classes within the system, usually implemented as subclasses of class UITheme. Evaluate

UITheme browseHierarchy

to open a browser to view them all and see the source code or inspect

UITheme allSubclasses

which gives a collection of the following classes

UIThemeStandardSqueak UIThemeVistary UIThemeWatery UIThemeW2K BlueUITheme UIThemeWatery2 PharoTheme PharoOrangeTheme

in the Pharo 1.4 image.

If you send the message #beCurrent to one of this classes you can activate it programmatically, so

UIThemeW2K beCurrent

will switch to Windows2000 like user interface, while

UIThemeWatery2 beCurrent

to a Mac like user interface. You can implement your own if you like by adding an own subclass.

So "UIThemeStandardSqueak beCurrent" would give you the colored environment known from Squeak — Torsten, May 31 '12 at 06:49

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