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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> |
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<meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2005" /> |
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<meta content="concept" name="DC.Type" /> |
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<meta name="DC.Title" content="Customizing the WRTKit look" /> |
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<meta scheme="URI" name="DC.Relation" content="WRTKit_Common_WRTKit_tasks-GUID-24870895-4449-4307-9a54-7c90f7b3905e.html" /> |
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<meta content="GUID-43369C51-23CF-41AC-A2F4-6320DC6EDA9A" name="DC.Identifier" /> |
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<meta content="en" name="DC.Language" /> |
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<link href="commonltr.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /> |
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<body id="GUID-43369C51-23CF-41AC-A2F4-6320DC6EDA9A"><a name="GUID-43369C51-23CF-41AC-A2F4-6320DC6EDA9A"><!-- --></a> |
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All visuals in the WRTKit are defined using CSS and images that are |
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located inside the WRTKit library in the Resources directory. The |
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code that implements the WRTKit user interface elements does not |
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actually know or care what the user interface looks like. Instead |
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the code creates an HTML element hierarchy to implement each control |
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and view and then sets CSS style class names to these elements. |
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Whenever the state changes (e.g. the control gets focused) the class |
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names are updated to reflect the new state. The CSS in the Resources |
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directory defines the style rules for the class names and visuals |
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are applied to the controls and views like for any other CSS styled |
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HTML elements. This results in a system where only CSS and images |
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need to be modified in order to implement a new look for a custom |
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WRTKit user interface - but no JavaScript code. |
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All CSS rules for the WRTKit are defined in a file called UI.css in |
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the WRTKit library Resources directory. This file defines hundreds |
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of style classes and can seem intimidating and complex, but the |
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principle behind the classes is actually very simple. Each HTML |
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element in each control has a common class and a set of state- |
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specific classes. E.g. the text element in the NavigationButton |
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control has "NavigationButtonText", "NavigationButtonTextNormal", |
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"NavigationButtonTextFocus", etc. The classes are applied based on |
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the current state of that element. So in our example if the button |
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was focused, the text element would be assigned the CSS classes |
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"NavigationButtonText" and "NavigationButtonTextFocus". Two classes |
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define all of the styling for the text element portion of the |
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NavigationButton control in the focused state. |
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Using two classes at the same time is convenient because it allows |
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common elements to be defined in the common class and only special |
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adaptations of that common rule in the state-specific class. One |
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pattern that is repeated throughout the WRTKit is to define a |
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the state-specific class. This makes switching from one state to |
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another (e.g. when a checkbox is checked) very straight forward. |
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Even if the graphics appear to change, no images need to be loaded |
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or switched but instead just the image offset changes and the result |
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Controls and views use HTML element hierarchies that are fine |
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grained enough that various kinds of layout customizations can be |
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applied without having CSS styles affect parts of a control that |
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they were not intended to affect. The result is more CSS rules and |
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more expansive element hierarchies, but also more freedom and |
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In most cases all that is needed to change the visuals of a WRTKit |
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user interface is to modify the images in the Resource directory and |
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update the color definitions for controls in the CSS file. The image |
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directory are named with clear names to make customization easy. |
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experiment! You will probably be surprised at how easy it is to make |
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="WRTKit_Common_WRTKit_tasks-GUID-24870895-4449-4307-9a54-7c90f7b3905e.html">Common WRTKit tasks</a></div> |
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