Customizable events on theme switch

[cah42]

I am a happy user of AutoDarkMode, using hotkeys to switch between light and dark.

However, some of my core applications, eg. WezTerm, does not follow the system theme, but has its own configuration file. I then run a dark.bat with a content like:

sed -i "/color_scheme = 'VSCodeLight+ (Gogh)',/ccolor_scheme = 'VSCodeDark+ (Gogh)'," c:\users\myself\.wezterm.lua`

to replace the theme configuration in the config file from light the dark.

Instead of this manuel process, it would be grand, if we had the possibility to fill out two custom events, SwitchToLightEvent and SwitchToDarkEvent. Each maybe just a edit we could fill out with a custom command or path to a bat with the commands needed to complete the theme switch fully.

[Spiritreader]

I'm sorry, but I don't fully understand what you mean with custom events. Could you explain a bit more?

It seems like what you want to do should be possible with our script engine though: https://github.com/AutoDarkMode/Windows-Auto-Night-Mode/wiki/How-to-add-custom-scripts

Just create an entry for your dark.bat and light.bat there and ADM will call them on switch.

You can add sth like this to the scripts file (more info and documentation in the link above)

  - Name: MyDarkApp
    Command: cmd
    ArgsLight: [/c, 'X:\path\to\batch\mylightcustomscript.bat']
    ArgsDark: [/c, 'X:\path\to\batch\mydarkcustomscript.bat']
    AllowedSources: [Any]

Auto Dark Mode will then run that batch file on switch and will log that and also output the callees stdout/stderr

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Example:

For this config:

  - Name: TestCMD
    Command: cmd
    ArgsLight: [/c, 'C:\Users\Sam\AppData\Roaming\AutoDarkMode\test.bat']
    ArgsDark: [/c, 'C:\Users\Sam\AppData\Roaming\AutoDarkMode\test.bat']
    AllowedSources: [Any]

test.bat:

echo hello

service.log:

2023-05-13 03:17:20 | Info | HotkeyHandler.RegisterAllHotkeys: hotkey signal received: toggle theme 
[...]
2023-05-13 03:17:24 | Info | ScriptHandler.Launch: running TestCMD: "cmd" "/c" "C:\Users\Sam\AppData\Roaming\AutoDarkMode\test.bat" 
2023-05-13 03:17:24 | Info | ScriptHandler.Launch: TestCMD's output: 
C:\Windows\System32>echo hello 
hello 

You can open the scripts configuration file here and then enable them after you're done with setting everything up.

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[cah42]

Sorry for the late response! I totally missed your reply.

Custom scripts is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for pointing me in that direction.