[Xerte] Re: Xerte2 stylesheets

Tom Reijnders reijnders at tor.nl
Thu Mar 24 13:51:01 GMT 2011


Yes, I thought that should work, but it doesn't.... until I remove 
loadStyleSheet(..)....

Tom

Op 24-3-2011 14:13, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> rootIcon.hideNext()
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Tom Reijnders
> *Sent:* 24 March 2011 11:44
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Xerte2 stylesheets
>
> Yes...! That works great! Thank you.
>
> Now... the only thing I need is the .fla, because for this case I need 
> to be able to disabe the contButton, and somehow
>
> rootIcon.contButton._visible = false; is not working.
>
> I'll check first whether I made a mistake somewhere in the script.
>
> Op 24-3-2011 10:55, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> Give this a shot.
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 24 March 2011 09:44
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Xerte2 stylesheets
>
> Hang on that doesn't work...
>
> *From:* Tenney Julian
> *Sent:* 24 March 2011 09:31
> *To:* 'Xerte discussion list'
> *Subject:* RE: [Xerte] Re: Xerte2 stylesheets
>
> Try the attached.
>
> loadStyleSheet(yourCSSfile)
>
> //code for reference
>
> INTERFACE.prototype.loadStyleSheet = function(css){
>
>      engine.css = new TextField.StyleSheet();
>
>      engine.css.load(expression(css, engine));
>
>      engine.css.rootIcon = this; //so we know what to referesh later.
>
>      engine.css.onLoad = function(){
>
>            //add any styles from the LOs stylesheet
>
>            var temp = this.css.getStyle('colourScheme');
>
>            for (var i in temp){
>
>                 debug(i);
>
>                 STYLES[i] = temp[i];
>
>                 //refresh the page
>
>                 this.rootIcon.closePage();
>
>                 intID = setInterval(this.rootIcon, 'refreshPage', 50);
>
>            }
>
>      }
>
> }
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Tom Reijnders
> *Sent:* 24 March 2011 09:29
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Xerte2 stylesheets
>
> Thank you Julian,
>
> Of course I will gladly test it... :-)
>
> Now I also undestand what's happening. I was wondering where the 
> stylesheet was supposed to end up in the STYLES object, now I understand.
> I suppose that after the test is succesfull, you'll make the .fla 
> available through svn.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Op 24-3-2011 10:22, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> Ah, I see what you mean now.
>
> When you load a stylesheet into TextField.stylesheet (note the class 
> property), all text fields take on the new styles when the sheet 
> loads. There's no need to handle the onLoad -- the new styles are set 
> automatically.
>
> So, the reason we had an issue yesterday is because if there is a 
> stylesheet attached to a LO, I just let it load. I didn't handle 
> onLoad, as there was no need to: once the sheet had loaded the new 
> styles would be set for all text fields.
>
>
> That's OK, UNLESS you want to use some of those styles in the theme. 
> Those styles are not set when TextField.stylesheet loads, as TextField 
> knows nothing of Xerte.
>
> So, what I did was make sure that if a stylesheet and / or 
> templateData were being loaded, to make sure both had loaded before 
> parsing the rlo file.
>
> Then, in the parse, I do this to get the styles:
>
>                                 var temp = 
> this.css.getStyle('colourScheme');
>
>                                 for (var i in temp){
>
>                                                 debug(i);
>
>                                                 STYLES[i] = temp[i];
>
>                                 }
>
> This sets the style values on Xerte's internal STYLES object.
>
> If you load a new stylesheet at runtime, you will also have to run 
> that code once the sheet has loaded.
>
> I think you will need some help in the engine, because that's going to 
> be a PITA otherwise.
>
> I will write a 'loadStylesheet' function for you in the engine, that 
> will set the styles and refresh the current page. Maybe you can test 
> it for me?
>
> J
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Tom Reijnders
> *Sent:* 24 March 2011 09:10
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Xerte2 stylesheets
>
> No... stylesheet is ignored.
>
> Op 24-3-2011 9:59, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> I just fixed that: can you test the attached?
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> 
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Tom Reijnders
> *Sent:* 24 March 2011 08:59
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Xerte2 stylesheets
>
> Thanks Julian,
>
> Are the changes in svn? I've got the following problem:
>
> 1. It works in your example
> 2. It works also in a XOT or the Page Tempates when I specify a fixed 
> file name for the stylesheet
> 3. It doesn't work if I try to set the stylesheet in the template 
> wizerd, i.e. I add a combobox to the .xwd.
>
> I am pretty sure that the style sheet is read before the xml templat 
> data is loaded, but I can't find where this happens.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Op 23-3-2011 10:39, Julian Tenney schreef:
>
> It works now: sorry, there were some timing issues with parsing the rlo file and loading up the styles info.
>   
> Try the attached,
>   
> J
>   
> -----Original Message-----
> From:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk  <mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>  [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
> Sent: 23 March 2011 07:49
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> Subject: [Xerte] Xerte2 stylesheets
>   
> The Page Templates use a stylesheet calle styles.css (in the common folder).
>   
> Some commented text in that file suggests that you can influence the
> colours of the titlebar, statusbar, etc. Is that working, and if so how.
> Whatever I try, I cannot get it to do anything...
>   
> Regards,
>   
> Tom
>   
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