Jason, I fully acknowledge the ease of a programming model when just coding against a library. But you have skillfully set up your web server to provide the image stuff, which would be necessary even if you didn't bother about an own theme at all, just because the qooxdoo widgets always use a theme.
Anybody with a similar environment could do the same, and enjoy a "build-free" programming model. But not everybody is in this posiiton, either because they don't have web server to work against, or wouldn't know how to set things up successfully. And we couldn't help getting server configurations right, debugging URL rewriting schemes and the like. If I were to write a qooxdoo app, maybe I would do it like you, or I would use the 'source-all' job which has a similar effect for the source version, or I would simply copy the setup from the Playground application which also includes "all" qooxdoo classes... There are so many approachable ways to achieve a build-free (or nearly build-free) programming model with qooxdoo, but people have to find out for themselves... T. > I'm definitely a sympathizer for big complete qooxdoo bundles. > As for themes.. I'm using themes in my web server and it basically > relies on a simple directory structure arrangement with like named gfx > files in each "theme folder" and same file names dir's etc... > > /xfiles/web/img/gfx/theme1/sometree > /xfiles/web/img/gfx/theme2/sometree > > Then I have one variable with: /xfiles/web/img/gfx/ > Another with the current theme: theme1/ > Then all the gfx use: var1 + var2 + /sometree/somefile.png or whatever. > > I find it's so easy to dig in when you download the big library - and > just start invoking functions and classes without trying to get the > build environment working which I have to say has been a nasty beast > even when I got it working I didn't get a good feeling about how things > had to be arranged. > > Using (older and some after-market qooxdoo bundles) I found it was > easier for me in that I could work on the application and not fuss > about. And frankly.. I didn't worry about themes all that much... and I > still got pretty "unique" results. > > My two cents. > > --Jason P Sage > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > qooxdoo-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
