windows10/11 Dark Mode Support

[MesterPerfect]

Operating system:
windows 10

wxPython version & source:
wxpython=4.11 pypi

Python version & source:
python3.9.9

Description of the problem:
I can't use dark mode on Windows

Code Example (click to expand)

import wx

class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent, title):
        super(MyFrame, self).__init__(parent, title=title, size=(400, 300))
        self.panel = wx.Panel(self)

        # Set dark theme colors
        dark_bg_color = "#252525"  # Dark background color
        dark_fg_color = "#FFFFFF"  # Dark foreground color

        # Set dark theme for the frame and panel
        self.SetBackgroundColour(dark_bg_color)
        self.panel.SetBackgroundColour(dark_bg_color)
        
        # Creating a read-only multi-line edit box
        self.text_ctrl = wx.TextCtrl(self.panel, style=wx.TE_MULTILINE | wx.TE_READONLY)
        
        # Creating buttons
        self.button1 = wx.Button(self.panel, label='Button 1')
        self.button2 = wx.Button(self.panel, label='Button 2')
        self.button3 = wx.Button(self.panel, label='Button 3')
        self.button4 = wx.Button(self.panel, label='Button 4')
        
        # Creating an edit box for path and browse button
        self.path_text_ctrl = wx.TextCtrl(self.panel)
        self.browse_button = wx.Button(self.panel, label='Browse')
        
        # Setting up the layout using a sizer
        sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
        sizer.Add(self.text_ctrl, proportion=1, flag=wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL, border=10)
        
        button_sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
        button_sizer.Add(self.button1, proportion=1, flag=wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL, border=5)
        button_sizer.Add(self.button2, proportion=1, flag=wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL, border=5)
        button_sizer.Add(self.button3, proportion=1, flag=wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL, border=5)
        button_sizer.Add(self.button4, proportion=1, flag=wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL, border=5)
        
        path_sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
        path_sizer.Add(self.path_text_ctrl, proportion=1, flag=wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL, border=5)
        path_sizer.Add(self.browse_button, flag=wx.ALL, border=5)
        
        sizer.Add(button_sizer, flag=wx.EXPAND)
        sizer.Add(path_sizer, flag=wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL, border=10)
        
        self.panel.SetSizer(sizer)
        
        # Binding events
        self.browse_button.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.on_browse)
        
    def on_browse(self, event):
        dialog = wx.FileDialog(self, "Choose a file", style=wx.FD_OPEN)
        if dialog.ShowModal() == wx.ID_OK:
            path = dialog.GetPath()
            self.path_text_ctrl.SetValue(path)
        dialog.Destroy()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = wx.App()
    frame = MyFrame(None, "Window with wxPython")
    frame.Show()
    app.MainLoop()

[MesterPerfect]

This is the result I get when I try to apply a dark theme to my program

[tatarize]

More annoying my app MeerK40t (https://github.com/meerk40t/meerk40t) literally does support darkmode for linux and osx but the windows version is a flashlight in your eyes.

You could do this, but you'd basically need to force change all the colors on every widget you use, or build a dark-mode capable set of them

https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2011/11/05/wxpython-creating-a-dark-mode/

[nai-kon]

I found the original wxWidgets experimentally supports dark mode with MSWEnableDarkMode() on ver3.3 (not released yet).
https://docs.wxwidgets.org/latest/classwx_app.html#af8c93d7e3345e62a58325f3ab1d158d6

Are there any plans to support dark mode on wxpython?

[sveinse]

Ping. Any plans on getting dark mode support on wxPython for Windows? The users is asking for it. Just implementing the undocumented MSWEnableDarkMode() is worth a shot.

[nai-kon]

Ping. I hope dark mode will be added in the next release.

[swt2c]

It will probably be a while before this will be supported in wxPython. I don't have any plans to move to the unstable branch of wxWidgets (3.3). Perhaps you could look into asking if the MSWEnableDarkMode patches could be backported to 3.2.