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Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by eyelidlessness »

Can’t look now because I’m on mobile, but excited to check it out when I get back to my desk. I’ll give more feedback if I have any then, but before that a couple quick thoughts:

- if you’re not already aware of/using Shiki[1], it’s an excellent library for using VSCode/TextMate themes on the web, and another potential use case for a tool like this

- it would be nice if some mobile functionality was supported where it’s not a heavy lift (eg browse themes)

1: https://shiki.matsu.io/

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by eyelidlessness »

liorsbg wrote: post #53

Wait, does this mean you could create a VSCode extension to create themes for VSCode within VSCode?

You can create an extension that does pretty much arbitrary JS, so I’d assume the answer is yes!

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by miketromba »

shortlived wrote: post #73

Any chance there can be a screensheet of the diff view? I've used a lot of Neo/Vim themes and this scenario is always where the theme falls down or really shines.

Good idea. The screenshot generation system is a bit limited at the moment just because of the quantity of images that need to be generated on the server-side every time someone updates their theme. This does seem like an important one, so I will add this to my list, thanks!

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by miketromba »

snarkypixel wrote: post #34

I've built themes before and one nice feature that I'm missing is color variables to avoid having to copy/paste the same RGB everywhere. It makes it much easier to play with various color schemes but also makes creating new themes from a template much easier.

Good idea, noted!

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by miketromba »

madeofpalk wrote: post #8

One of VS Code's strengths is that it can entirely run without the browser. It would be cool to see actual real preview of the themes in action.

I actually experimented with this in earlier iterations of the Theme Studio, but I remember running into a bunch of limitations. I think the HTML/CSS simulation is similar enough to the real thing for now (prob 90-95% accurate), but like you said, it would be cool to interact with the theme in a real editor. (clicking buttons, hover states, etc)

Re: Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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Post by iudqnolq »

Gehinnn wrote: post #50

It would be so cool if you could change the colors directly in VS Code by just pointing to the pixel that you want to change. A color picker would pop up and the change would be applied immediately. (It would not only change the selected pixel but the entire color key) Maybe with some machine learning the easy-to-compute function from colors -> VS Code UI Screenshots could be inversed, so that you know which color ke…

You could do that without ml by setting each color to a marker color and detecting the marker. In theory :). I'm sure it would be a PITA.
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