On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:00:34 -0400 Roan Horning <[email protected]> said:
> 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.
terminology and rage do this. they use a theme overly (but use extension
instead). grep for overlay. look at terminology main.c you'll see extension
calls commented out above the overlay calls. this is how you can tell elm to
extend its search for theme styles into other files if it fails on the default
theme. in this theme you provide a group with a style name other than default.
see default theme src (edc) eg elm/button.edc and see a group like
elm/button/base/default - thats the default style. replace default with a style
name of your choice, compile the edc file with edje_cc and you have an edj file
you can point to as a theme extension. modify the edc as appropriate to have
the setup you want style-wise. again - lots of examples on edc files and their
format (the edc file for button is included into a parent so it doesnt have the
requires collections {} parent in that file, but in its parent master that
#includes it).
does this make sense to you?
> Thanks,
>
> Roan
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:08:40 -0400 Roan Horning <[email protected]>
> > 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.
> >
> >
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> >
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