Hello all,
I've searched the OL site as well as googled, but haven't found much on
extending the existing skins. I have poked around the OL installation and seen
the components/resources directory and it's contained .png and .swf image files,
but was wondering if there is some kind of manifest that I can look at that
documents the specific images that need to be replicated.
Although I'm a long time windows programmer (mostly Delphi and .net C#) I've
been branching out to RIA web applications lately using mostly Adobe Flex. As a
matter of fact, I'm developing a Delphi/FreePascal based server framework that
proxies internal widgets to a client UI. The premise is that I could plug in a
Flex UI, Android UI, Object-C UI, etc while leaving the server side Model and
Controller untouched.
I looked at OpenLaszlo a while back but didn't take a long look at it for one
reason or another. Now over the last week or so, I've re-discovered OpenLaszlo
and I have to say I like the idea of cross-compiling to Flash or DHTML and that
the DHMTL produced has fairly good performance though a flash based distribution
of a OL app seems to perform better.
At any rate, I like just about everything concerning OL with the exception of
two detractions:
1. IDE support. I've looked at the offerings non seem to be mature. Though
this is definitely not a show stopper for me, it is nice to have a good ide.
Not to mention that Eclipse based IDE's are dogs in terms of performance and
resource consumption IME. No offense to the Java devs.
2. Slick skins. The existing skins seem a little dated in terms of the chrome
involved.
I believe both of these issues can be remedied in one way or another. If I work
with OL long enough, I'll get frustrated and end up writing an IDE or at least
decent script editor with code suggestions, etc. The skins issue seems to be
negated by the fact that is possible to create additional themes/skins though
I'm not certain at this point how feasible it is to create new themes.
Everything else quite impressive about the OpenLaszlo framework and I plan to
get started on something soon if I can overcome the skins problem fairly simply.
Kudos to the devs and contributors.
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Warm Regards,
Lee
