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Sandro Martini commented on PIVOT-689:
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Hi Roger, this is a feature that we have since many time, but there is not so
much documentation on it (some discussions in our mailing lists) ... I'll try
to write something and see where to put it in our docs/tutorials/demos (Color
Scheme Creator Demo page could be a good candidate because during development
of custom color schemes many times it's used, even to have a real-time
preview); but note that it generates only the array containing colors, not a
complete Terra Theme custom json file.
Anyway, just for info, to use a custom theme colors you have to pass to
Applications a startup argument like this:
-Dorg.apache.pivot.wtk.skin.terra.location=/org/apache/pivot/tutorials/TerraTheme_dark.json
or (depending on the location of json file sometimes you could use a relative
path, like:
-Dorg.apache.pivot.wtk.skin.terra.location=TerraTheme_swing.json
Even Applets should be able to use this feature.
Note that there is another feature, for using custom stylesheet but it's
another story ...
Eclipse launch files in attach in this issue are a sample of this, directly
usable inside eclipse, just copy in a project (it's better in a new one) inside
the workspace and run them :-) .
> Finishing touches on Skin Colors
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>
> Key: PIVOT-689
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-689
> Project: Pivot
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: wtk-terra
> Reporter: Sandro Martini
> Assignee: Sandro Martini
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.1, 2.0.5
>
> Attachments: ColorSchemeBuilder - dark.launch, KitchenSink -
> Dark.launch, pivot689.patch
>
>
> Finishing touches on Skin Colors, some info here (and more later here in
> JIRA): https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-579
> See if even the final part of this (not implemented) could be useful:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-245
> And there was another discussion (I have to find where, in nabble) is change
> some color index usage to have better visual appearance (of course
> retrofitting existing behavior when/if possible).
> Note that probably after these little changes, custom color json files should
> be a little updated.
> And a little thing on this:
> now only Tooltips doesn't use a palette color (they use an hard-coded color)
> ... what do you think to make them use the yellow-ish color at
> palette index 19 (or one of is variants, the 18 or 20) ? And use a similar
> (yellow-ish but a different color index, if possible) color on warnings.
> I could adapt a little that color in all Pivot palettes to look similar to
> what should be ... tell me.
> For example, someone remember the background color in Swing Tooltips (ok not
> the best in graphic design and colors :-) ), but with this little change we
> could also have this little feature, where in most palettes will be
> yellow-ish, but where needed could be different.
> Added some documentation in the Terra package JavaDoc file on color palette
> usage in the Terra Skin, to help anyone wants to write their custom colors,
> and then removed, probably the best place for this is in a Tutorial.
> Last, in ColorSchemeBuilder (and maybe even in the Kitchen Sink), add some
> Tooltips to see how they happen, but see where they makes sense.
> And maybe in ColorSchemeBuilder move some elements in the Tab2 or Tab3,
> grouping them by similar components (some componets should be added there).
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