BJ,
The visual themes framework has been discussed in the dev mailing list
and in a Jira issue (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1885) -
so it is not accurate to say that it came in the back door.
The general idea is to have pluggable visual themes. The first choice
was to have the themes kept in the hot-deploy folder - so that
downloaded themes could be added automatically. Later, the themes folder
was created specifically for this purpose, but the behavior is the same
as hot-deploy - just drop your downloaded theme into the folder and it
will be added automatically.
You made a good point about the naming convention used in the
layoutSettings Map. We could modify the theme services to convert the
enum IDs to the Java naming convention. Perhaps you could get a
discussion going on the dev mailing list for that.
The purpose of headerTemplateLocation hasn't been defeated, it is just
implemented differently. If you want to specify a different header
template, then you simply change the value in the VisualThemeResource
entity.
-Adrian
BJ Freeman wrote:
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1) the themes has a folder outside of framework or specialpurpose.
Believe it should be in framework/common/webcommon/themes
2) the java convention is not used for say VT_SHORTCUT_ICON instead of
being vtShortcutIcon
3) VT_SHORTCUT_ICON is used as a <Enumeration enumId so should not be
used as a variable.
4)if an application uses headerTemplateLocation then it is overridden
<set field="headerTemplateLocation"
from-field="layoutSettings.VT_HDR_TMPLT_LOC[0]"
default-value="component://common/webcommon/includes/header.ftl"/>
so the purpose of headerTemplateLocation is defeated.
the same for
footerTemplateLocation
appbarTemplateLocation
messagesTemplateLocation
5)having moved the location of the headerTemplateLocation to the entity
VisualThemeResource without providing ways of custom application the
standard way to pass this information breaks the model.
Jacques Le Roux sent the following on 2/2/2009 2:18 AM:
Could you elaborate you POV, please ?
Jacques
From: "BJ Freeman" <[email protected]>
I am johnny come lately, so it looks like themes came in the back door
and has circumvented the ofbiz coding practices and framework instead of
enhancing it.
Jacques Le Roux sent the following on 2/2/2009 12:36 AM:
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Visual+Themes+-+How+to
A bit deprecated but still usable. But I wonder if people are aware of
the wiki search feature :p
Jacques
From: "BJ Freeman" <[email protected]>
is there a wiki that shows how to use the visual themes?
Enrique Ruibal A. sent the following on 2/1/2009 3:12 PM:
Hi,
Try First changing tha field value for VT_HDR_IMAGE_URL it is set by
default to the field value of RESOURCE_VALUE as
/images/ofbiz_logo.jpg
on the visual_theme_resource_table.
Put your own image name and path there and see what happens
afterwards.
Regards,
-Enrique Ruibal
G. Michael Jean wrote:
Hi,
I made a new logo - same size and type as the default
ofbiz_logo.jpg.
When I copy this new logo to
/path/to/ofbiz/framework/images/webapp/images and then rename the
file
ofbiz_logo.jpg then it is displayed successfully.
I decided to try to do this a little more intelligently and so I
changed
the instances of text "ofbiz_logo.jpg" in
/path/to/ofbiz/framework/common/widget/CommonScreens.xml to the
filename
I created but it still displays the old logo. Does anyone know why?
Michael
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