Finish LINQPad Dark Theme?

rorourke · October 2023

Are there any plans to finish/implement the dark theming for the regular elements of the UI? Menus, pop-up dialogs, etc. Or even just following the current Windows theme.

While I don't live in Query Properties or the NuGet Manager, they come up often enough to be highly jarring relative to the rest of the UI.

JoeAlbahari · October 2023

The main menu, all context menus and the main toolbar will be properly dark-theme rendered in the first release of LINQPad 8 (there should be a preview out next week). The icons in the TreeViews (and nearly everywhere else) will also be drawn with a vector-based renderer that's dark-theme aware. Some of this required a WPF rewrite, which is why it took some time. There are plans to improve other areas in the following months. What would you rank as the most important elements?

rorourke · October 2023

Glad to know the work proceeds. Thanks Joe.

In terms of priority:

Query Properties
NuGet Manager

Those are the two dialogs I encounter the most.

JoeAlbahari · October 2023

Check out the early LINQPad 8 preview and let us know your thoughts:
https://www.linqpad.net/linqpad8.aspx

kirides · November 2023

Would it be much of an issue if Linqpad added support for "immersive dark mode" (native themed titlebar) ?

Attached is a sample how it would look today.

void Main()
{
    IntPtr hWnd = LINQPad.Util.HostWindowHandle;
    NativeInterop.Dwmapi.UseImmersiveDarkMode(hWnd, true);
}

internal static class NativeInterop
{
    public class Dwmapi
    {
        [DllImport("dwmapi.dll")]
        private static extern int DwmSetWindowAttribute(IntPtr hwnd, int attr, ref int attrValue, int attrSize);

        private const int DWMWA_USE_IMMERSIVE_DARK_MODE_BEFORE_20H1 = 19;
        private const int DWMWA_USE_IMMERSIVE_DARK_MODE = 20;

        public static bool UseImmersiveDarkMode(IntPtr handle, bool enabled)
        {
            if (IsWindows10OrGreater(17763))
            {
                int attribute = DWMWA_USE_IMMERSIVE_DARK_MODE_BEFORE_20H1;
                if (IsWindows10OrGreater(18985))
                {
                    attribute = DWMWA_USE_IMMERSIVE_DARK_MODE;
                }

                int useImmersiveDarkMode = enabled ? 1 : 0;
                return DwmSetWindowAttribute(handle, attribute, ref useImmersiveDarkMode, sizeof(int)) == 0;
            }

            return false;
        }

        public static bool IsWindows10OrGreater(int build = -1)
        {
            return Environment.OSVersion.Version.Major >= 10 && Environment.OSVersion.Version.Build >= build;
        }
    }
}

JoeAlbahari · November 2023

Thanks - I did not know about this API. Will add this to the next build.

Finish LINQPad Dark Theme?

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