> I still wish there were a way to change widget class names
There is myButton.setStyleName("foo");
Or myButton.addStyleName("foo");
There's also the concept of primary style names and dependent style
names, if you want to dig into that.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:00 PM, hobbyist<bindingserv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 2, 9:09 am, "alex.d" <alex.dukhov...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just override .gwt-Button in your MyApp.css and all buttons will have
>> your style.
>>
>
> Thanks! This achieves the effect I was aiming for. I still wish
> there were a way to change widget class names, but this certainly gets
> the job done. Thanks again for the answer; this solution is so simple
> that it makes my question sound silly.
>
>
> On Jul 2, 5:29 am, djd <alex.dobjans...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> AFAIK, styles are set in each class, when they are constructed (so,
>> via constructor).
>>
>
> I checked this, and unfortunately it looks like this is true:
> http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/browse/branches/snapshot-2009.06.16-r5570/user/src/com/google/gwt/user/client/ui/Button.java#74
>
> On line 80 (inside the Button() constructor), you see the string "gwt-
> Button" is hard-coded. I assume the same is true in other widgets.
> Is there any good reason why GWT widgets class names are initialized
> this way, for performance maybe? Without a compelling performance
> gain, hard-coding this string just seems like bad practice.
>
>> Still, what you actually want is some sort of UIDL (User Interface
>> Definition Language) parser. There are many proposals, you could
>> implement a simple one that only handles stylenames.
>
> Do you know if there are there any proposals close to completion? I
> enjoy writing parsers, but I don't want to write my own if something
> new is about to be published.
> >
>
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