Add ways to access theme information for the current client via macros.

[melek]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I want to create add-ons that fit into the MapTool User Interface beautifully (or at least seamlessly), but currently I can't dynamically adapt the colors from the current theme to my UIs.

Describe the solution you'd like
I want some way to access colors/values from the TinyLAF theme that is loaded at MapTool Startup for the client my macros run on. Preferably this would be pretty fast, so I wouldn't have to cache them ahead of time or something like that.

Perhaps this could be appended to getInfo("client").

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Leave out people with MapTool themes which clash with my add-ons, accessibility be damned.
• Create 'dark mode', 'high contrast mode', 'large font mode', or similar features/themes for users to select from. Encourage others to do the same, so that you have as many places to select UI themes as you do add-ons, creating opportunities to craft a hideous visual menagerie.

Additional context
There are some requests that would impact this one:

• Add Advanced Theme Support #1248
• UI modernization #2329

Unless this request is trivial, If a more advanced approach to theming like in those requests above is in the pipeline this one can probably be merged or tabled until those are more mature.

[Phergus]

Here is a dump of what you would get for all the colors used by a theme and where they are used.

ThemeColorDump.json.txt

[melek]

That is awesome, thank you!

Definitely would create a wiki page to help folks map that in their designs and recommend TinyLAF editor as an assistive tool if they need more reference.

[Phergus]

Wiki page for getInfo() updated with "theme" option.

https://wiki.rptools.info/index.php/getInfo#Retrieve_theme_Information

[FullBleed]

Will we be able to set these theme elements by macros?

Tinylaf does not seem to offer access to all of these elements (probably why some of the text colors in, for example, the Dark Theme are not optimal). A more custom, in-tool theme editor would be desirable.

[melek]

Will we be able to set these theme elements by macros?

Tinylaf does not seem to offer access to all of these elements (probably why some of the text colors in, for example, the Dark Theme are not optimal). A more custom, in-tool theme editor would be desirable.

Given that right now we have to restart MapTool to change themes, I think dynamically changing the theme is contingent on something like #1248

[Phergus]

Will we be able to set these theme elements by macros?

Nope. No plans to do so.

[FullBleed]

Given that right now we have to restart MapTool to change themes, I think dynamically changing the theme is contingent on something like #1248

I'm not really concerned with changes being dynamic (though there has been some waffling on whether this is actually not possible.) I am interested in getting at elements that tinylaf doesn't though.