"On 5/25/10 8:25 AM, MartinWittemann wrote: > > Hi Greg, > I found a section about child controls in general [1] and about the alias > handling of child controls in the appearance [2]. Maybe those two help. > Regards, > Martin > > [1] > http://qooxdoo.org/documentation/1.1/ui_develop?s=child%20control#child_controls > [2] > http://qooxdoo.org/documentation/1.1/ui_appearance?s=child%20control#child_control_aliases Hi Martin,
Although these are helpful for understanding the concepts behind appearances, they don't answer some crucial questions: 1) how to set the appearance of a widget (answer: refine the appearance property). I found the answer by looking at the source for widgets 2) how to properly extend a theme, and the docs don't mention that a custom theme is automatically generated for every app in the theme/ directory (discovered this by accident too) 3) how to determine what the appearance id of a child control is if the value stated doesn't actually work. All in all, a very frustrating experience. I've been working on this for 3 days now with absolutely no luck getting it to display a stupid selectbox or list properly :). This sentence: " For every child control a selector is generated which starts with the first widget which is not a child control itself" doesn't make any sense. Is the first widget the custom widget? Is it the top-level child control? I have a widget that refines its appearance id to "programinfo" and a child widget that is called "movements" which is a list. I have tried aliasing "programinfo/movements" and "programinfo/list" to "list" and this has absolutely no effect. The ONLY thing that worked was explicitly setting the appearance to "programinfo/movements," so perhaps this is a bug in qooxdoo? It is not matching the documentation in any case, the selector "programinfo/movements" was never generated. Greg
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