wx.SystemAppearance¶

Provides information about the current system appearance.

An object of this class can be retrieved using wx.SystemSettings.GetAppearance and can then be queried for some aspects of the current system appearance, notably whether the system is using a dark theme, i.e. a theme with predominantly dark background.

This is useful for custom controls that don’t use the standard system colours, as they need to adjust the colours used for drawing them to fit in the system look.

New in version 4.1/wxWidgets-3.1.3.

Class Hierarchy¶

Inheritance diagram for class SystemAppearance:

Methods Summary¶

`GetName`	Return the name if available or empty string otherwise.
`IsDark`	Return `True` if the current system there is explicitly recognized as being a dark theme or if the default window background is dark.
`IsUsingDarkBackground`	Return `True` if the default window background is significantly darker than foreground.

Properties Summary¶

Name

See GetName

Class API¶

class wx.SystemAppearance(object)¶

Provides information about the current system appearance.

Methods¶

GetName(self)¶

Return the name if available or empty string otherwise.

This is currently only implemented for macOS and returns a not necessarily user-readable string such as “NSAppearanceNameAqua” there and an empty string under all the other platforms.

Return type: string

IsDark(self)¶

Return True if the current system there is explicitly recognized as being a dark theme or if the default window background is dark.

This method should be used to check whether custom colours more appropriate for the default (light) or dark appearance should be used.

Return type: bool

IsUsingDarkBackground(self)¶

Return True if the default window background is significantly darker than foreground.

This is used by IsDark if there is no platform-specific way to determine whether a dark mode is being used and is generally not very useful to call directly.

Return type: bool

Properties¶

Name¶: See GetName

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