Changing Terminal colors with style (Applescript)

changeTerminalColor.scpt

global favThemes
set favThemes to {"Basic", "Pro Blue", "Pro Mint", "Pro Plum", "Pro Red", "Pro Gold", "Pro"}

tell application "Terminal"
	# Get current settings
	set theme to the name of the current settings of the selected tab of the front window
	set i to my index_of(theme)
	
	# Find next settings
	set next to (i mod (count of favThemes) + 1)
	set nextTheme to item next of favThemes
	
	# Apply next settings
	set current settings of the selected tab of the front window to item 1 of (settings sets whose name is nextTheme)
end tell

on index_of(this_item)
	repeat with i from 1 to the count of favThemes
		if item i of favThemes is this_item then return i
	end repeat
	return 0
end index_of

Changing Terminal colors with style

For some time I wanted to get that nerdy script updating colors of Terminal windows—helping distinguish them when multi-tasking/getting myself (heavily) side-tracked.

Except the pseudo-designer in me could simply not bear random dodgy color schemes ;) so I ended up rolling my own script. It essentially cycles through a list of predefined Terminal window settings; I carefully curated colorful variations of the "Pro" theme + the "Basic" one.

Thanks to the interwebs for the 45-minute dose of Applescript basics, and for the index_of function. :)