ida-colorschemes

What in the fck?!$ Yup, it's a colorscheme generator for IDA Pro 6.4+, written in Python 2.7, using Jinja2 & PyYAML.

Note: Not quite done yet, checked it in early, so I have some version control.

About

In IDA Pro 6.4, Hex-Rays introduced .clr colorschemes. The file format and GUI interface is really picky, and after messing around for 15 minutes I could already tell that I was going to spend way too much time tweaking it ... so I decided to spend way more time building a python script to generate colorscheme files from palettes.

But whyyyyyyyy? The .clr format is extremely picky:

• You can't comment your .clr file, and the variable names are underwhelming as a documentation resource.
• Any adjustment to the whitespace breaks the .clr file and it won't import. No errors will be reported.
• There's no support for variable bindings, which makes the configuration process impossibly tedious (for me).

To make the color configuration process really easy, ida-colorschemes does the following:

• Colorschemes are written in YAML. This allows us to add comments, modify whitespace, and leverage node anchors for variable substitution.
• The default.jinja2 template has been commented to provide additional information about variables.
• Version dependent .clr files have been converted into jinja2 templates.
• The colorscheme configuration is merged into the template, and the final .clr file is written.
• Palette can be leveraged to generate highlighting and accent colors from the base palette (soon).

Installation

ida-colorschemes has the following dependencies:

• libyaml
• python 2.7
  • cliff
  • jinja2
  • palette
  • pyyaml

NOTE: If you want to mess with the internals, I recommend installing bpython, then running the script with: bpython -i idacs.py.

Example setup on OSX (using homebrew & virtualenv/virtualenvwrapper):

# install os dependencies
brew install libyaml virtualenv virtualenvwrapper

# create & activate the virtual environment
mkvirtualenv idacolors && workon idacolors

# clone the repo & cd into it
git clone _REPO_ && cd idacolors

# install the python dependencies from requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

CLI args not done yet.

./idacs.py

TODO

• Add dynamic palette generation using python-palette.
• Finish figuring out all the various color settings.
• Build some modular 'color groups' for use in the colorschemes.
• Add CLI options.