Metro Dark Theme Question

Hi Stefan,

Something like this in your app startup should work:

var tc = new TintedThemeCatalog("Custom", ThemeName.MetroDark.ToString(), Colors.Transparent);
tc.TintGroups.AddRange(TintGroupSets.State, Colors.Red);
ThemeManager.RegisterThemeCatalog(tc);
ThemeManager.CurrentTheme = "Custom";

Change the Red color to whatever you want.

Thanks for the sample! I can see now the hover items and selection items in this color. Is it also possible to change the "main" color of theme (not sure how I should call it, basically the "File" tab/backstage button in the ribbon and the blue font in the ribbon for the selected tabs, the window glow color, etc.)?

Regards,
Stefan

Hi Stefan,

The state tint group there will alter all the brush resources defined with that state name.  But even on those that aren't part of that state, you can alter them either by tinting their group like:

tc.TintGroups.Add(new TintGroup(TintGroupNames.ApplicationButton, Colors.Red));

Or by overriding individual brushes in your application's Resources like:

<SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static themes:AssetResourceKeys.RibbonTabItemForegroundSelectedBrushKey}" Color="#FF0097FB" />

Thanks, that helped a lot. I really like the way you can tweak colors. Very easy and straightforward! The only thing I'm not able to change is the Window glow color/border color. If I want to make it a different color using this:

tc.TintGroups.Add(new TintGroup(TintGroupNames.Window, Colors.Orange));

it also changes the color of the row with the ribbon tabs. Any way to set the border only without affecting anything else?

cheers,
Stefan

I just found out that I can override the WindowBorderActiveBrushKey using this XAML:

            <SolidColorBrush x:Key="{x:Static apthemes:AssetResourceKeys.WindowBorderActiveBrushKey}" Color="#FFFFA500" />

 How would I do this in C# code?

Hi Stefan,

You could do that in C# like this:

this.Resources.Add(AssetResourceKeys.WindowBorderActiveBrushKey, new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Red)); 

Where the "this" is the Application in Application.OnStartup.