As a compromise, how about we allow the following syntax:
<Window>
<StyleClass name="foo">{...}</StyleClass>
<BoxPane>
<PushButton styleClass="foo"/>
</BoxPane>
</Window>
Or some other variant, where the essential point is that it style classes get
declared as one of the first child
elements on a container, so that it gets added to the parent early.
-- Noel Grandin
Greg Brown wrote:
> FYI, named styles are turning out to be a lot more challenging than I
> expected. The solution I proposed the other day doesn't work - elements in
> BXML aren't added to the parent element until the end tag is processed. So,
> given the following structure:
>
> <Window styleClasses="{foo:{...}}">
> <BoxPane>
> <PushButton styleClass="foo"/>
> </BoxPane>
> </Window>
>
> when the styleClass attribute of the PushButton is processed, the BoxPane
> hasn't yet been added to the Window, so the "foo" style class name resolves
> to null. :-(
>
> I'll keep thinking about it, though. Suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> G
>
