Change icons according to theme

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Hi,

I want to set different icons for actions according to if it's a dark or light theme. Is it possible? 
At the moment I'm defining the action's icons in the plugin.xml. Also, if there is a way to paint the icon according to the text color for svg/png (similarly to React) it can also do the trick.

Something similar to what is done for IntelliJ's add/edit configuration button could be great.

Thank you,
Shachar

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Vladimir Schneider
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The API will handle default/dark and normal/HDPI 2x icons for you if you name your icon files according to the API convention.

Here I have one icon with variants for normal, dark, normal 2x and dark 2x:

resources/icons/application/abbreviation.png
resources/icons/application/abbreviation@2x.png
resources/icons/application/abbreviation@2x_dark.png
resources/icons/application/abbreviation_dark.png

The icon load is done on the normal 1x file the rest the API handles:

 public static final Icon ABBREVIATION = load("/icons/application/abbreviation.png");

I would point you to the documentation but I referred to it so long ago, I don't remember where exactly it is documented, but I know it is documented.

 

 

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Thank you Vladimir, this was super helpful for me :)

Found the docs, putting here for future reference: http://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/reference_guide/work_with_icons_and_images.html?search=icon#image-formats-and-naming-notations

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