importVSCodeSettings

importVSCodeSettings.sh

# This is a bash function that will copy a vscode settings.json file into the current directory and randomly select a color scheme.

# Step 1:  Create a settting.json file somewhere which at least contains this section.  Feel free to add your favorite settings to this.

{
    "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
      "titleBar.activeForeground": "FOREGROUND",
      "titleBar.inactiveForeground": "FOREGROUND",
      "titleBar.activeBackground": "BACKGROUND",
      "titleBar.inactiveBackground": "BACKGROUND"
    }
}

# Note: The FOREGROUND and BACKROUND above will be replaced by the script.

# Here is a shell function for creating the template.  It's only been tested on Mac with zsh.  
# One way to make this launchable from anywhere is to create a bash function and put it in your .zshrc (or .bashrc)
# That is the way we will do it here.  An alternate way would be to create a .sh script and make it executable and put
# it in a directory that is included in the shells PATH.

importVscodeSettings() {
  # this assumes you are in the root dir of your project
  # first create a dir
  mkdir -p .vscode
  
  timestamp=$(date +%s)
  theme=$((${timestamp} % 2)) #  theme 0 or 1

  declare -a lightColors=(
    [1]="#ffffff" # white
    [2]="#ffc8c8" # pink
    [3]="#84ff8d" # light green
    [4]="#8ccbfe" # light blue
    [5]="#e1e1e1" # light grey
    [6]="#ffa565" # orange
    [7]="#d5d166" # lightYello
  )

  darkChoices=7

  declare -a darkColors=(
    [1]="#b67300" # brown
    [2]="#000000" # black
    [3]="#178803" # dark green
    [4]="#050388" # dark blue
    [5]="#656565" # dark grey
    [6]="#860303" # dark red
    [7]="#e30000" # red
  )
  lightChoices=7


  timestamp=$(date +%s)
  lightColorIndex=$((${timestamp} % ${lightChoices} + 1))  # pseudo random based on timestamp
  lightColor=${lightColors[${lightColorIndex}]}

  timestamp=$(date +%s)
  darkColorIndex=$((${timestamp} % 123456 % ${darkChoices} + 1))  # different pseudo random based on timestamp % 123456
  darkColor=${darkColors[${darkColorIndex}]}


  if [ ${theme} -gt 0 ]; then
      foreground=${lightColor}
      background=${darkColor}
  else
      foreground=${darkColor}
      background=${lightColor}
  fi
  
  # replace the path below with the path to your settings.json template
  cat ${HOME}/dev/utils/settings.json \
    | sed "s/FOREGROUND/${foreground}/g" \
    | sed "s/BACKGROUND/${background}/g" \
    > ./.vscode/settings.json
}


# That's all!  source ~/.zshrc to activate the function then type `importVSCodeSettings` from the command line to run