IDA command palette & more

December 26, 2025 · View on GitHub

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How to build

Tested on all operating systems that run IDA Pro.

OSArchStatus
Linuxx86_64
macOSx86_64
macOSarm64
Windowsx86_64

Currently this repo supports IDA Pro with Qt6. For IDA Pro v9.1 and earlier with Qt5 support head to qt5 branch. To build you need IDA Pro SDK.

For easier compiling, use Qt6 artifacts provided by Binary Ninja Crew

You can download prebuilt binaries with Qt6 from this repo.

You can download older prebuilt plugins with Qt5 from the releases page.

Python API

You can make a custom palette in IDAPython.

from __palette__ import show_palette, Palette, Action
import random, string

myhandler = lambda item: sys.stdout.write('You selected: %s\n' % item.name)
random_str = lambda: "".join(random.choice(string.lowercase) for i in range(20))

entries = [Action(name=random_str(), # displayed text
    handler=myhandler, # callback
    id='action%d' % i # must be unique
    ) for i in range(20)]

show_palette(Palette('palette name here', 'placeholder here...', entries))

C++ API

Currently cleaning up C++ API. See standalone/ folder.

#include <palette/api.h>
#define COUNT 100

QVector<Action> testItems() {
    QVector<Action> action_list;

    action_list.reserve(COUNT + 1);
    action_list.push_back(Action("std::runtime_error", "raise exception", ""));

    for (int i = 0; i < COUNT; i++) {
        auto id = QString::number(rand());
        action_list.push_back(Action(id, id, ""));
    }

    return action_list;
}

const QString TestPluginPath(const char* name) {
    // Don't worry! also packaged with bundle theme!
    // Just point a writable path
    return QString("./path_to_plugin_theme/") + name;
}

int main() {
    QApplication app(argc, argv);

    set_path_handler(TestPluginPath);

    show_palette("<test palette>", "Enter item name...", testItems(), [](const Action & action) {
        if (action.id() == "std::runtime_error") {
            throw std::runtime_error("raised!");
        }
        qDebug() << action.id() << action.description() << action.shortcut();
        return false;
    });

    app.exec();
}

Changing theme

You can copy css, json files from palette/res/theme/<name>/* to %APPDATA%/Hex-rays/IDA Pro/plugins/palette/theme/, like the existing css, json files.

ayu white:

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solarized dark:

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