Hi Tom, the way you described should work. What is your output when you insert the following line in your main-method:
this.debug(qx.manager.object.AppearanceManager.getInstance().getAppearanceTheme()); Just give it a shot. Maybe I can help you a little bit to track down this problem. cheers, Alex On Tuesday 10 April 2007 Tom Hunter wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to change the default background colour in my application. > > > > I understand the background colour is set in qx.theme.appearance.Classic, > under the client-document key, and changing it here works OK, but what I > want to do is create a custom theme that inherits from the Classic theme, > as described in the documentation > (http://qooxdoo.org/documentation/user_manual/create_a_custom_appearance). > So I've created my custom theme class and set it as the appearance theme in > my application initialisation. However, overriding the client-document key > and setting a new background colour doesn't seem to have any effect. I've > resorted to setting the background colour manually in the main method: > > > > var d = qx.ui.core.ClientDocument.getInstance(); > > d.setBackgroundColor(null); > > > > The code for my custom theme is below. Any help would be much appreciated. > (If anyone's interested, I'm trying to build an Ajax powered IDE.) > > > > qx.OO.defineClass("ajax_ide.theme.appearance.customTheme", > qx.theme.appearance.Classic, > function(vTitle) { > qx.theme.appearance.Classic.call(this, vTitle || "Custom Appearance"); > }); > > // Define appearances > qx.Proto._appearances = qx.lang.Object.carefullyMergeWith( { > /* > * My custom appearance settings here > */ > > "client-document" : { // This doesn't seem to be working for some > reason... > setup : function() { > this.bgcolor = new qx.renderer.color.ColorObject("#FFFFFF"); > this.color = new qx.renderer.color.ColorObject("windowtext"); > }, > > initial : function(vTheme) { > return { > backgroundColor : this.bgcolor, > color : this.color, > hideFocus : true, > enableElementFocus : false > } > } > }, > > }, qx.Super.prototype._appearances); > > // Singleton instance getter > qx.Clazz.getInstance = qx.lang.Function.returnInstance; > > // Register the appearance theme to the appearance manager > qx.manager.object.AppearanceManager.getInstance().registerAppearanceTheme(q >x .Clazz); > > > > > > Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
