How do u make a themes option

I've made themes, but I'm not sure if it's the most efficient way (probably not). So here's my way of doing it:

I store every form control in a separate class for organization. When I store them, I store them as arrays for each type of control (e.g. Button, Panel, etc). I then use a foreach loop (for loop for arrays) to then color the controls for a specific theme.

You can make a function to color those objects if you want, but it depends on what you plan on changing within a theme.

For example, you can do the code below for coloring buttons, backcolor, border, listbox, and textbox (I never tested how webbrowser colors work with Monaco):

(Code for the actual coloring takes around 5 minutes if you know how foreach loops work as it's really simple, example below)

This loop loops around an array and loops to the next index's value.

foreach (indexType indexName, arrayName) { //Each time the code below runs, the next index value for the array runs (e.g. [0] to [1])

    MessageBox.Show(indexName + " was found"); //The indexType is usually either a variable or the array's type (String for example)

}

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Color buttons = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

Color backColor = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

Color border = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

Color listBox = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

Color textBox = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3)

nameOfFunction(buttons, backColor, border, listBox, textBox); //Colors all of the stuff using these colors in each foreach loop

You can then use that function with another function if you want within a single function for changing themes.

void functionName(int theme) {

    Color buttons;

    Color backColor;

    Color border;

    Color listBox;

    Color textBox;

    switch (theme) {

        case 0:

            buttons = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

            backColor = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

            border = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

            listBox = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

            textBox = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

            break;

        case 1:

            buttons = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

            backColor = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

            border = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

            listBox = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

            textBox = Color.FromArgb(int1, int2, int3);

            break;

        case default: //Not any of the valid themes

            //Code here

            break;

    }

    nameOfFunction(buttons, backColor, border, listBox, textBox);

}

I hope this helped you.

@JohnnyDoe Thank you!

I personally create either a .ini file or .json file and have a parser for the values

from there on the program start I have a line of code go through every color value and set the appropriate color to the control

I also don't make it so every single control has its own color since that's just tedious in my opinion so all same controls get the same color

so, in the end, its something like this

1.) Parse a file with the controls and colors
2.) Loop through the controls and set color

3.) profit

I prefer you using deserialization in json. 

@JohnnyDoe What's your discord? I will tell you something and ask something :)