| Re: [e4-dev] Better OS-Themes |
I quickly prototyped up some code to map the CSS 2.1 system colour markers to SWT OS styles https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=373015 e.g., "HighlightText". Although these colours have been deprecated in CSS 3, they would be useful for our styling. Brian. On 18-Mar-2013, at 4:31 AM, Tom Schindl wrote: > Hi, > > Bogdan fixed https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=402530 so > people have access to native OS-Color constants. > > Still I think this is not good enough as a replacement for the Themes > stuff in 3.x because there one could do calculations based on those colors. > > I hacked such custom colors in 4.2 in > https://github.com/tomsontom/e4-e3theme/tree/master/at.bestsolution.e4.theme.css > but I think this should be generalized. > > I don't have the time to do this but I think we should: > a) provide a possibility to registering custom colors > b) provide access to functions to CSS to derive colors from a base one > - as an inspiration take a look at the 2 colors JavaFX is using - > http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/scene/doc-files/cssref.html#typecolor > (search for derive/ladder) > > Tom > > -- > B e s t S o l u t i o n . a t EDV Systemhaus GmbH > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > tom schindl geschäftsführer/CEO > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > eduard-bodem-gasse 5-7/1 A-6020 innsbruck fax ++43 512 935833 > http://www.BestSolution.at phone ++43 512 935834 > _______________________________________________ > e4-dev mailing list > e4-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev