Tab coloring in VSCode Extension

[XXDIL]

I wanted to get some insight on how I could color multiple tabs in vscode with different colors.

More specifically:

1. Each tab is associated with a specific connection.
2. A specific connection belongs to a specific color.
3. So when I open a tab that has a connection that's mapped to green (for example), that tab should be in green.

I have already looked into an approach that has to do with updating the settings.json file, and using tab.activeBackground.
I was wondering if there is any other way to do this programatically, an approach that does'nt seem so forced.

Basically I don't want to modify the settings.json file repeatedly. (Or ideally not edit it at all)

[alefragnani]

Hi @XXDIL ,

The current Tabs API doesn't allow you to change its color so, for now, you will be forced to touch settings.json in order to define custom colors. But, it only supports/exposes two tab states (active, inactive), and the group concept it has today, if I remember correctly, is related to the four groups where you can split/organize editors. I'm not sure this could be updated/replaced for this group of tabs you need.

That being said, I would suggest you to open an issue in VS Code repo, asking for a new/updated API

Hope this helps

[r3m0t]

Did you look at the file decoration API which lets you color the filename, which is in the Explorer and the foreground of the tabs?

[XXDIL]

I have looked into it but that was for coloring the tree nodes, could you provide a sample of how I can do that for tab color?

[r3m0t]

No it's not possible, I was just suggesting an alternative

[mondersky]

If you want to color your vs code tabs you can't do that with the current API you have to do some patching, I made the same in my extension https://github.com/mondersky/tabscolor-vscode