Themes on the toolbar?

[Quest The Wordsmith]

Is there a way to have buttons for each theme on a custom toolbar? I'd like to be able to switch themes at the click of a button.

While I'm at it, I'd also like Reaper to cook me eggs, iron my clothes, and give my cars an oil change. Any actions for that?

[Breeder]

Of course, every ReaperThemeZip (in the root of a folder that contains the rest of the images) file should contain all pngs for toolbar buttons and they need to be named the same across all of the themes.

So, if you have toolbar_blabla.png in theme 1 you should have a corresponding toolbar_blabla.png in theme 2 etc...

[Quest The Wordsmith]

Originally Posted by Breeder

Of course, every ReaperThemeZip (in the root of a folder that contains the rest of the images) file should contain all pngs for toolbar buttons and they need to be named the same across all of the themes.

So, if you have toolbar_blabla.png in theme 1 you should have a corresponding toolbar_blabla.png in theme 2 etc...

No no, what I meant was I want buttons on a toolbar at the top of the Reaper screen (one for each theme) that when clicked, will switch to that corresponding theme. A toolbar that switches themes for me. Get it? I don't want to have to navigate menu's to change Reapers theme. I figured there's gotta be a way to do it with the click of a button!

[Breeder]

Haha, sorry for misunderstanding.

Well, you could create a macro that uses actions "switch to next/previous color theme". Or you could get SWS extensions and use it's feature Resources to load themes (but it will reload reaper with selected theme instead of just switching theme, I have no idea why, I guess it's to do with API limitations or something).

[hopi]

probably someone could write a py scrit for this but personally don't see much of a need... the context menu to switch to a given theme is pretty easy, ain't it?

[Quest The Wordsmith]

Bump. Anyone interested in writing a py script to have toolbar buttons that switch to given themes? Pretty please?

[Jeffos]

As Breeder said, you can attach your buttons to some slot actions "SWS/S&M: Resources - Load theme, slot 1", "SWS/S&M: Resources - Load theme, slot 2", etc.. They don't "reload" REAPER contrary to what is said above (@Breeder -nonewinst by default!)
Those slots 1, 2, etc.. are defined in the S&M Resources window (choose "Theme" in the top dropdown box).

[Breeder]

It seems a new instance of reaper.exe was loading when clicking on theme slot here because I had both of these options unchecked:

Check for multiple instances when launching
when launching with project/media

in Preferences->General

[Jeffos]

er.. fixing

[Quest The Wordsmith]

Just tried this and it works - but only with themes "as is". It won't load any themes that I've made minor color adjustments to.

For instance, the Default_3.0 theme I changed a few colors and saved those changes as "v3 custom", but that's not available to select as an option.

I checked in the ColorThemes directory and noticed that my custom themes have a .ReaperTheme extension while the original theme files have a .ReaperThemeZip extension. Could this be the issue? Will the theme slots only load the zip ones?

[Jeffos]

Ah.. yes, .ReaperTheme files are supported in the *beta* version of the extension (download link in my sig).

[Quest The Wordsmith]

Originally Posted by Jeffos

Ah.. yes, .ReaperTheme files are supported in the *beta* version of the extension (download link in my sig).

Like a glove! (<-- Jim Carey voice)

[pattste]

On a related topic (and to make this more useful), it would be good if REAPER could remember the layout selections made for each theme. I find that when I switch between themes, all layout choices are reset to the default.