Re: [flexcoders] Dynamically Changing an entire CSS

Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:38:38 -0700

Right, but what I am trying to do requires the style to be selectable on a per user basis, from a profile setting.  I have a workaround I am currently attempting.  It's a little hackish, but doesn't require a ton of actionscript.  If its successful then I'll share to this list.

-- Matthew
 
On Apr 6, 2005 11:39 AM, JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nope, you were right the first time; Flash does "compile" the CSS into the SWF; basically hardcodes the CSS value settings.
 
The reason I said upload a new CSS to the server is that the Flex server, when a new request comes in for the MXML file, should detect the CSS file change, and generate a new SWF for the end user that will have the new CSS styles in it.
 
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Dynamically Changing an entire CSS

 
Okay wait, let me get this right... Flex does not compile the css directly into the resulting swf?  It reads the css at runtime?  If that is true then you could write a jsp file that output the CSS.  That css could change based on cookie or session type data.  Does that sound like an option that might work?
 
-- Matthew

 
On Apr 6, 2005 10:25 AM, JesterXL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You cannot change CSS at runtime except via the setting of styles, as you have indicated.
 
However, if restarting the application is acceptable, simply replace the CSS file on the server, and refresh the browser.
 
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Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 1:13 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Dynamically Changing an entire CSS

 
After searching the mailing list archives I cannot seem to find a good answer for this question so I thought I'd re-ask it and see if it could get some additional feedback.
 
We have multiple VERY extensive CSS files.  We'd like to be able to dynamically switch between the CSS files at run time.  So far the only solution that I have been able to come up with is to use the JSP Flex tag library to generate the main mxml application file and dynamically set the CSS file there.  I only need to set this once, during the application initialization.  If the CSS preference is changed, it is acceptable to restart the application.  I saw some rather hackish ways of programmatically going through and resetting the style on individual items in the application, but this is very large application and that's just impractical.  Ideally we just need to change the CSS.  Is there no way to do this in MXML/ActionScript?  Is this just a missing feature that we might expect fixed/added in a future version?
 
Thank you,
 
-- Matthew

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