PSST Themes

PSST II now supports themes.

By default, PSST uses the 'blackgold' theme, but will give you your own choice.

Themes are defined by the files in the 'themes' directory where you have PSST installed. Windows users - if you accepted the defaults, you'll find these themes in C:\Program Files\PSST-II\themes

To change the theme which PSST uses, click on Edit then Select Theme. Click on the combo box to select a new theme.

Note, however, that the new theme won't come into effect until you restart PSST.

Creating Your Own Theme

It's easy to create your own PSST themes.

All you have to do is copy the template.theme file to another name, say, mytheme.theme. The '.theme' file extension is compulsory - without this, PSST won't see the file when you select your new theme.

Once you've created your new theme file from the template, open it up in your favourite text editor, and hack it to your heart's content.

Note that a theme mostly consists of colour settings, with a few font settings.

The syntax for colour settings is pretty similar to HTML, where you can either use a standard colour name like "blue", "red", "white" etc, or "#RRGGBB", where RR is a 2-digit hexidecimal value for the amount of red, GG for green, and BB for blue.

My theme doesn't work - PSST keeps loading the "blackgold" theme!

This will happen if there are errors in your theme file.

Possible causes of errors include: All lines in theme script files must either be:

I Need More Themes!

If you cook up a nice theme you'd like to share with other PSST users, please send it to me. I'll put it up on the PSST website as a contributed theme, and add your name as creator (unless you choose to remain anonymous).

Happy Theming!