Colored Window Theme in Pharo?

Question

How do I switch to the colored window theme in Pharo?

Answer 1

It is a setting and as such you can select it from the settings tool

Right click on the Pharo desk to open the world menu -> System -> Settings -> Appearance -> User interface theme

Themes are classes within the system, usually implemented as subclasses of class UITheme. Evaluate

UITheme browseHierarchy

to open a browser to view them all and see the source code or inspect

UITheme allSubclasses

which gives a collection of the following classes

UIThemeStandardSqueak UIThemeVistary UIThemeWatery UIThemeW2K BlueUITheme UIThemeWatery2 PharoTheme PharoOrangeTheme

in the Pharo 1.4 image.

If you send the message #beCurrent to one of this classes you can activate it programmatically, so

UIThemeW2K beCurrent

will switch to Windows2000 like user interface, while

UIThemeWatery2 beCurrent

to a Mac like user interface. You can implement your own if you like by adding an own subclass.