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Roger Whitcomb commented on PIVOT-689:
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Actually you can do
'System.setProperty("org.apache.pivot.wtk.skin.terra.location",
"TerraTheme_dark.json")' (for instance) even in code (i.e., not on the command
line) before you create any Pivot components.
So, having some others shipped in the pivot-wtk-terra.jar file would facilitate
doing this (and thus setting up a dark theme).
Another thing I thought of, if we had some color schemes that looked good,
would be to setup a small enum for use in a new method in Theme that would set
the "location" from a field in the enum. Then, potentially you could write
code like this:
Theme.setColorScheme(ColorScheme.DARK);
which would set "location" to "TerraTheme_dark.json".
For non-standard ones, then you could go back to using the System.setProperty
method (as above) or using -D on the command line.
What do you think? I can code up a patch for my enum scheme if you want to
look at it.
> Finishing touches on Skin Colors
> --------------------------------
>
> 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
> Fix For: 2.1, 2.0.5
>
> Attachments: ColorSchemeBuilder - dark.launch, ComponentExplorer -
> dark.launch, KitchenSink - Dark.launch, pivot689.patch,
> pivot_colorschemebuilder_dark_flat_screencapt.png,
> pivot_colorschemebuilder_dark_screencapt.png,
> pivot_colorschemebuilder_default_flat_screenshot.png,
> pivot_colorschemebuilder_default_screencapt.png
>
>
> 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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