Carsten and Daniel,
Thank you for your replies. I am starting to understand how it all works.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Daniel Juyung Seo <seojuyu...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:00:34 -0400 Roan Horning <roan.horn...@gmail.com>
> > said:
> >
> > > Carsten,
> > >
> > > Thank you for your response. My next question is can someone point me
> to
> > > examples or tutorials for creating themes and applying them to
> Elementary
> > > based applications. Currently when the buttons are displayed, the text
> > size
> > > is too small, and I have been asked to increase the size of the text
> for
> > > easier viewing.
> >
> > terminology and rage do this. they use a theme overly (but use extension
> > instead). grep for overlay. look at terminology main.c you'll see
> extension
> > calls commented out above the overlay calls. this is how you can tell elm
> > to
> > extend its search for theme styles into other files if it fails on the
> > default
> > theme. in this theme you provide a group with a style name other than
> > default.
> > see default theme src (edc) eg elm/button.edc and see a group like
> > elm/button/base/default - thats the default style. replace default with a
> > style
> > name of your choice, compile the edc file with edje_cc and you have an
> edj
> > file
> > you can point to as a theme extension. modify the edc as appropriate to
> > have
> > the setup you want style-wise. again - lots of examples on edc files and
> > their
> > format (the edc file for button is included into a parent so it doesnt
> > have the
> > requires collections {} parent in that file, but in its parent master
> that
> > #includes it).
> >
> > does this make sense to you?
> >
> >
> Hello,
> Here is the example. You will easily understand this once you read
> Carsten's explanations above.
> c code:
>
> https://git.enlightenment.org/core/elementary.git/tree/src/examples/theme_example_01.c
> edc code:
>
> https://git.enlightenment.org/core/elementary.git/tree/src/examples/theme_example.edc
>
> New button style is defined in edc file and c code is using that button
> style.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Daniel Juyung Seo (SeoZ)
>
>
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Roan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Carsten Haitzler <
> ras...@rasterman.com
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:08:40 -0400 Roan Horning <
> > roan.horn...@gmail.com>
> > > > said:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am developing an application using the Elementary widget set. I
> am
> > able
> > > > > to set up the interface either directly in my code, or using edje
> and
> > > > > compiling an .edc file. I am having problems figuring out where the
> > size
> > > > of
> > > > > the label text for a button is configured, and if there is a direct
> > > > method
> > > > > to set it for the button itself, or a more general object that
> > controls
> > > > the
> > > > > size of widget labels.
> > > >
> > > > the button will use whatever font, size and look is defined in the
> > theme.
> > > > you
> > > > are not intended/meant to go have such fine grained control (in
> almost
> > all
> > > > cases such control is wrong and just leads to poor results for users
> -
> > eg
> > > > when
> > > > dpi changes or the designer decides to go for overall larger, smaller
> > or
> > > > different fonts etc.). users get to override your app choices etc.
> via
> > > > their
> > > > options too.
> > > >
> > > > what you should do is set style. several button styles are provided
> by
> > > > default,
> > > > and the idea is that this style can be re-designed in the theme by
> the
> > > > designer
> > > > when/if they choose.
> > > >
> > > > stand back and don't think of font size. that is a result, not an
> > input.
> > > > what
> > > > is the input? the concept? the semantics of the button? is it means
> to
> > be
> > > > an
> > > > "emergency" button (thus be large, red and easy to find, but of
> course
> > > > warning
> > > > you to only press in an emergency), or a "default action" button - ie
> > mark
> > > > it
> > > > as something done by default (a font size change is just a design
> > decision
> > > > that
> > > > would make default buttons have different sizes, if a designer
> > desired).
> > > >
> > > > you want to use a style to indicate some kind of meaning probably.
> look
> > > > into
> > > > that.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am"
> > --------------
> > > > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com
> > > >
> > > >
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