[Xerte] Re: hover colour on status bar menus

Wed Aug 31 10:26:59 BST 2011

The real problem is that the styles borrow from STYLES properties, and in the themes we have as default, it's appropriate to take certain colours from certain properties, so the theme changer always assumes that. Hence you have to put in some custom code, define black as white, etc.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 30 August 2011 23:27
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: hover colour on status bar menus

Ideally I need to nail this long before then but if I do I can obviously talk about it at the event.

I should clarify for anyone reading this thread this isn't a problem with the current download code. It's a problem I've hit through needing a mostly white interface but with black LO and Page title text yet white progress indicator text. To achieve the custom interface needed I've had to make changes to XMLFramework.fla and I think part of the problem is the need for different colour lo and page title text to the text on the progress indicator. The current code seems geared to the progress indicator text being the same colour as the title text. Doesn't explain why the progress indicator text is showing as I want it on Windows but not on Mac but as I say I don't want anyone reading this to think there is a current incompatibility - it's just by customisation that isn't working.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 30 August 2011 22:18
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: hover colour on status bar menus

we need to nail this down to the simplest possible example, in xerte standalone, that exhibits the problem. Ideally I can replicate it in the Nottingham installation.

If that doesn't nail it, then we explore same same in a simplest toolkits install until we do nail it.

This might make a good talking point for the xerte meeting: a real good example of how to go about troubleshooting the runtime, and understanding it a bit more. This would be a good problem to tackle in a group like that, where we can all see the code, and try debugging it.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell [ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk]
Sent: 30 August 2011 19:17u can see what I can see.
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: hover colour on status bar menus
Hi Julian
I've got a very odd problem with this that I can't resolve :-(

People reported that the progress indicator page numbers weren't showing and it turns out they're working fine on Windows but not on Mac. I'm using http://lcmmoodle1.lcm.ac.uk/xerte/play.php?template_id=28 for testing. I've been round the houses trying to resolve it and at the moment changed the selectable property of the two text fields to true to verify that the font or font size isn't the problem. If it wasn't working on both Windows and MacOS I might understand but as it's working fine on Windows on any browser but doesn't work on MacOS on Safari or Firefox I'm totally baffled! Changing to one of the default themes shows the numbers on Mac just fine so it suggests the problem is with my default theme but why would it work fine on Windows and not on Mac! Any ideas?

Cheers
Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 17 August 2011 16:52
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: hover colour on status bar menus

Live with it, it looks OK to me.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 17 August 2011 16:50
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: hover colour on status bar menus

Thanks for your help. Haven't been able to sort that last bit yet but most of it is working http://lcmmoodle1.lcm.ac.uk/xerte/play.php?template_id=28
Cheers
Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 17 August 2011 15:24
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: hover colour on status bar menus

Look in the help for FStyleFormat object for the combo box, then use setStyleProperty

Try highlight? hightlight3D? focusRectInner? focusRectOuter? They look like the most obvious ones.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 17 August 2011 15:18
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: hover colour on status bar menus

Thanks although  I think it's textSelected e.g. the text above the hover colour. I had that set in styles.css but what was confusing was that
cbo.setStyleProperty("textSelected", STYLES.textSelected); didn't seem to be working so had to set cbo.setStyleProperty("textSelected", 0xffffff);
Got it working now but just trying to find what I need to change to turn the border of the combo boxes off so that the status bar doesn't have the box lines?
Cheers
Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 17 August 2011 13:50
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: hover colour on status bar menus

STYLES.textUnselected

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 17 August 2011 13:46
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: hover colour on status bar menus

Cheers inbetween message had already got that bit working e.g.
Changed
STYLES.titleBarColour = titleBarColour=0x84A2C6;
to
STYLES.titleBarColour = 0x000000;
Now I need to get the text above that to be white instead of black.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 17 August 2011 13:23
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: hover colour on status bar menus

Try setting STYLES.titleBarColour

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 17 August 2011 13:21
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: hover colour on status bar menus

I've actually got titleBarColour set to black which is why all is fine when the LO first loads. I'm drawing a white box over the top of the titlebar area to keep that white. The problem only happens when selecting default from the menu but I can't find where that's going wrong. :-(

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 17 August 2011 13:12
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: hover colour on status bar menus

Sorry, it's because the colour used for the selection property is the one for titleBarColour, so you must have that set to white.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 17 August 2011 12:48
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Subject: [Xerte] hover colour on status bar menus

Hi
I think I asked this once before but a long time ago and can't find it on the archives...

I'm creating a custom theme which by default is mostly white. All is fine when the LO loads and when using the status bar menus the hover effect shows a black background with white text e.g.
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If I select one of the other named colour schemes the hover effect works ok too e.g.
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However If I select default via the colour scheme menu then the hover colour is white background and so doesn't show e.g.
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I can't find a way to fix this either in XMLFramework or by script in the RLT. Any suggestions?
Cheers
Ron

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