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external css file [message #761320]

Tue, 06 December 2011 09:36

Thomas Kölling

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Registered: December 2011
Location: Munich

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Hey guy's

i'm currently evaluating the e4 platform for our new development project. I've played around a bit with the css theme functionality and it works "okay".
But if I export the product, the css files seems to be "compiled" in the application. i currently can't find em in the exported folder. the application seems to working right okay, inclusive the theme switching. so how is it possible to say the e4 rcp application, that it should use an user (not developer) specific css file at runtime?

greetings, thomas

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Re: external css file [message #761373 is a reply to message #761320]

Tue, 06 December 2011 11:23

Thomas Schindl

Messages: 6651
Registered: July 2009

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Well yes the css is like in any other file packaged into the jar-File.

So now the questions what you'd like the user to allow:

a) modify an existing theme, then simply avoid packaging your plugin
while exporting (IIRC this could be done when defining a feature)

b) add new themes in a simply way: You could add an Addon which watches
a certain directory where users can drop css-Files and your Addon
reads them and calls IThemeEngine#registerTheme() which is the same
the extension point is doing. The CSS-Engine should does support
file:// uris so this should be no problem.

Tom

Am 06.12.11 10:36, schrieb ThomasK:
> Hey guy's
>
> i'm currently evaluating the e4 platform for our new development
> project. I've played around a bit with the css theme functionality and
> it works "okay". But if I export the product, the css files seems to be
> "compiled" in the application. i currently can't find em in the exported
> folder. the application seems to working right okay, inclusive the theme
> switching. so how is it possible to say the e4 rcp application, that it
> should use an user (not developer) specific css file at runtime?
>
> greetings, thomas

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