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Preference

You can customize ZStudio's themes, display language, and behaviors to suit the way you're used to working.

Themes

In ZStudio, open the Color Theme picker with click gear icon (Preferences) in the bottom-left corner and select Color Theme. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+K > Ctrl+T to display the menu. And in the pop-up menu, select the theme you want to switch.

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You can search for themes in the Extensions view. If you find one you want to use, install it and the new theme will be available after restart ZStudio.

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Please visit Open VSX Registry to find more themes. To use the theme in this website, you need download and install it via Extension view.

Display language

The default display language in ZStudio is English. You can change the default UI language by:

  • Go to gear icon (Preferences) > Configure Display Language in the bottom-left corner.

  • Or press Ctrl+Shift+P to bring up the Command palette then typing Configure Display Language to display the available language.

Changing the locale requires a restart of ZStudio. You will be prompted to restart when you select en (English) or zh-cn (Simplified Chinese) that are available in ZStudio now.

Settings

Nearly every part of ZStudio's editor, user interface, and functional behavior has options you can modify. ZStudio provides different scopes for settings. When you open a solution(winodw), you will see following two scopes. The Workspace Settings override User Setting.

  • User Settings - Settings that apply globally.
  • Workspace Settings - Settings only apply when the winodw is opened.

To change the preferences, you can go to Preferences > Settings in the bottom-left corner or searching Preferences: Open User Settings in command palette. Open the Preference (UI), and you can see the User Setting Tab and Workspace Setting Tab.

There is a Commonly Used group at the top, which shows popular customizations. You can search and discover the settings you are looking for. When you search using the Search bar, it will not only show and highlight the settings matching your criteria, but also filter out those which are not matching. This makes finding settings quick and easy.

Each setting can be edited by either a checkbox, an input or a dropdown. Edit the text or select the option you want to change to the desired settings. Modified settings are indicated with a blue line in the editor. In the example below, the Menu Bar Visibility and Title Bar Style have been changed.

The gear icon (More Actions...) opens a context menu with options to reset the setting to its default value as well as copy the setting ID or JSON name-value pair.