RainbowColors

RainbowColors is an extension that changes the foreground or background color rainbowly after a certain interval or a few keystrokes have been made.

Why???

I created this extension because I wanted to learn or expand my knowledge of the following points:

• Have fun developing vscode extensions with vscode.
• TypeScript
• Compiling with tsc
• esbuild (bundling extensions used in VS Code for Web environments)
• VSCode Testing

Repository	GitHub	Visual Studio Marketplace

Status

Feature

The rainbowColors.event setting defines which event triggers the RainbowColors function. This event determines when the foreground or background color changes in a rainbow pattern. The available options for this setting are interval and keystrokes.

When set to interval, the colors will change at a specified time interval. When set to keystrokes, the colors will change after a certain number of keystrokes have been made. You can customize this setting according to your preference by modifying the value of rainbowColors.event in the extension's settings.

Start RainbowColors

Starts the rainbow colors animation.

Shortcut: strg + alt + r, s
Command: RainbowColors: Start.

Stop RainbowColors

Stops the rainbow colors animation and restores the original color customizations workbench.colorCustomizations.

Shortcut: strg + alt + r, e
Command: RainbowColors: Stop.

Pause RainbowColors

Pauses the rainbow colors animation. The current color remains the same.

Shortcut: strg + alt + r, p
Command: RainbowColors: Pause.

Remove RainbowColors

Removes rainbow colors from the VS Code workspace workbench.colorCustomizations.

Shortcut: strg + alt + r, q
Command: RainbowColors: Remove.

Settings

Preferences -> Settings -> Extensions -> RainbowColors

Name	Description	Default Value
rainbowColors.event	Defines which event executes the RainbowColor function.	interval
rainbowColors.mode	Defines which color change is to be carried out.	foreground
rainbowColors.interval	The interval (in seconds) between change the colors.	5
rainbowColors.numberOfKeystrokes	Specifies the number of keystrokes that must be performed before the colors changes.	3
rainbowColors.numberOfColors	Specifies the number of colors to be used for generating the rainbow colors.	100
rainbowColors.background	Defines which background areas should be changed.
rainbowColors.foreground	Defines which foreground (borders and shadows) areas are to be changed.
rainbowColors.colorCustomizations	This is the original colorCustomizations setting. (Overrides colors from the currently selected color theme.).

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Installation

To install this extension, you have three options:

1. Search Extension in Marketplace

Search and install online extension via VSC extensions menu.

Code -> Preferences -> Extensions simply search for RainbowColors to install.

2. Install via vsix file

Download latest vsix file and install via extensions menu.

Code -> Preferences -> Extensions -> Views and More Action -> Install from VSIX.

3. Source code

Download archive with the latest release and unpack it to VisualStudioCode extensions folder $HOME/.vscode/extensions/.

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Download

For download see VSCode-RainbowColors

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Enjoy!

Your Denny Korsukéwitz 🚀