Hi
Since font sizing is also generally part of the theme, is would be
nice to be able to specify
styles="font:{size:+1}"
or
styles="font:{size:120%}"
so that no knowledge of the theme's settings is necessary.
Regards, Noel.
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 19:56, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have just finished making a change that provides much more flexibility in
> customizing the appearance of text-based components. Instead of the
> "fontBold", "fontItalic", and "fontSize" styles that were previously limited
> to the Label skin, you can now use a new JSON-based encoding on any
> component that displays text. For example, the following markup will create
> a PushButton that uses a 12-point bold font whose other attributes are taken
> from the theme font:
>
> <PushButton buttonData="Foo" styles="{font:{size:12, bold:true}}"/>
>
> All properties are optional; any unspecified properties will be taken from
> the theme. The supported attributes are "name" (String), "size" (int),
> "bold" (boolean), and "italic" (boolean). Note that, if the curly braces are
> not included, the previous encoding that relied on Font.decodeFont() will be
> used.
>
> The down side is that you will need to update any WTKX files that were using
> the previous styles, since they are no longer supported. Any such changes
> should be straightforward, but please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Greg
>
>
