Carsten, Thank you for your response. My next question is can someone point me to examples or tutorials for creating themes and applying them to Elementary based applications. Currently when the buttons are displayed, the text size is too small, and I have been asked to increase the size of the text for easier viewing.
Thanks, Roan On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>wrote: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:08:40 -0400 Roan Horning <roan.horn...@gmail.com> > said: > > > Hi, > > > > I am developing an application using the Elementary widget set. I am able > > to set up the interface either directly in my code, or using edje and > > compiling an .edc file. I am having problems figuring out where the size > of > > the label text for a button is configured, and if there is a direct > method > > to set it for the button itself, or a more general object that controls > the > > size of widget labels. > > the button will use whatever font, size and look is defined in the theme. > you > are not intended/meant to go have such fine grained control (in almost all > cases such control is wrong and just leads to poor results for users - eg > when > dpi changes or the designer decides to go for overall larger, smaller or > different fonts etc.). users get to override your app choices etc. via > their > options too. > > what you should do is set style. several button styles are provided by > default, > and the idea is that this style can be re-designed in the theme by the > designer > when/if they choose. > > stand back and don't think of font size. that is a result, not an input. > what > is the input? the concept? the semantics of the button? is it means to be > an > "emergency" button (thus be large, red and easy to find, but of course > warning > you to only press in an emergency), or a "default action" button - ie mark > it > as something done by default (a font size change is just a design decision > that > would make default buttons have different sizes, if a designer desired). > > you want to use a style to indicate some kind of meaning probably. look > into > that. > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
