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[ALLY] Other question about stylesheets

 [1/3] from: etienne::alaurent::free::fr at: 25-Apr-2001 1:21


Hi, I want to implement customer skins in my app with stylesheets. And I found two solutions : 1-define all stylesheets with 'styles (And make a function to define and save customer skin styles. The new skin will be loaded and reflected whenever the app comes up.) and use these stylesheets in a layout definition. example: ------ st-backdrop stylize [ backdrop: backdrop with [ color: none image: none effect: [gradient -1x-1 50.80.120 70.130.180] ] ] example: layout [ styles st-backdrop backdrop text "This is an example !" ] view example 2-define objects with all attributes of any style used. When a layout comes up, the defined vars are used. Example: ------ tpl-backdrop: make object! [ color: none effect: [gradient -1x-1 70.130.180 50.80.120] image: none ] example: layout [ backdrop with [ image: tpl-backdrop/image color: tpl-backdrop/color effect: tpl-backdrop/effect ] text "This is an example !" ] view example What is the best policy to implement this ? and why ? Thanks. Etienne

 [2/3] from: allenk:powerup:au at: 25-Apr-2001 11:24


Hi Etienne, I would vote for option1 over option2. Using stylize you have the power to not only add new styles but can overide all the existing ones, so you can enforce a uniform (but different) style on all your apps. So changing a look and feel for an app is just a matter of changing the name of the style used in layout or altering the stylesheet. ; a style corporate-styles: stylize [ text: text font-size 12 h1: h1 crimson logo: image [image %xyz.gif] .... ....etc ] ;Later the company decides to change logo and major headings are to be in the new company color of "navy" . corporate-styles: stylize [ text: text font-size 12 h1: h1 navy logo: image [image %xyz2.gif] ... ...etc ] However you may also decide to combine the two methods you present by doing the following. corp-colors: [ alt-headings: crimson background: black company-green: leaf - 0.30.0 ] corporate-styles: stylize [ text: text font-size 12 h1: h1 corp-colors/alt-headings logo: image [image %xyz2.gif] ... ...etc ] This gives you the power of simple styles in layouts without the need to add facets each time they are used, but also gives you a standard place to find those facets when needed. layout [h1 "New heading" corp-colors/company-green] I hope this made some sense. The answer you need depends on your situation really. Cheers, Allen K

 [3/3] from: etienne:alaurent:free at: 27-Apr-2001 1:08


Hi, Allen Thank you for your opinion. that's good for me. Cheers, Etienne Le mer, 25 avr 2001, vous avez écrit :