User configurable Color Themes

[migueldeicaza]

Should include other color themes, currently we have the Norton-esque theme, we could include a TurboVision-esque theme. The support is already in place, it is a matter of allocating new colors in each driver.

[kostrse]

Look and feel of Turbo Vision (not only colors) would be really great!

[tig]

This issue, for Out-ConsoleGridView requests more user control over color themes:

PowerShell/ConsoleGuiTools#129

It should be possible for a user to define the colors used for Dialog, Error, Menu, and TopLevel in a configuration file. The drivers would then load these color overrides and use them instead fo the colors built into the source.

I'm renaming this Issue to be more consistent with this ask.

[tznind]

It should be possible for a user to define the colors used for Dialog, Error, Menu, and TopLevel in a configuration file. The drivers would then load these color overrides and use them instead fo the colors built into the source.

Not sure if this helps but up to now I have just used yaml for specifying custom color combinations (but not new color codes):

https://github.com/SMI/IsIdentifiable/blob/main/ii/TerminalGuiTheme.cs
https://github.com/SMI/IsIdentifiable/blob/main/ii/theme.yaml

var themeFile = Path.Combine(TestContext.CurrentContext.TestDirectory, "theme.yaml");
var des = new Deserializer();

var theme = des.Deserialize<TerminalGuiTheme>(File.ReadAllText(themeFile));

Presumably we don't want a dependency on a specific persistence library though?