get illustrator user interface brightness with script

[Kazem Rahimi]

Hi everyone,

is there a way to get user interface brightness of illustrator with script?

is dark or light?

[femkeblanco · Accepted solution]

This is the basic idea

var value = 0; /*floating point between 0 and 1, 0 = dark and 1 = light*/
app.preferences.setRealPreference("uiBrightness", value);

But I have to restart Illustrator for it to take effect. I don't know if that's the way it's supposed to work or if that's just the way it works for me (CS6).

Edit:  To "get", rather than "set",

alert(app.preferences.getRealPreference("uiBrightness"));  // < 0.5 = dark, > 0.5 light