Creating dialogs requires a lot of information for the single elements. How big is a font?
which font sould be used? Which color should the background have, etc? Adding this information
to each single widget result in lots of redundant information. If the same look should be applied
to several widgets, the problem of changing each and every widget's properties gets annoying.
To follow this part, have a look at the tutorials/03 folder.
To face the problem of recurring properties disko makes use of classes. That are basically are sets of widget
properties bound to a name. These defintions are stored in file theme.xml
in the theme folder themes/<cthemename>/.
The default look of widgets could be changed there as well.
In this example the theme is stored in themes/default/.
Example 3. theme.xml contents
<mmstheme name="default">
<class
name = "myLabelClass"
type = "label"
font.name = "DejaVuSansMono.ttf"
font.size = "18"
alignment = "center"
color = "#999999ff"
selcolor = "#ccccccff"/>
<class
name = "default_rootwindow"
type = "rootwindow"
alignment = "center"
w = "100%"
h = "100%"
bgcolor = "#000000ff"
opacity = "255"
/>
</mmstheme>
This puts the font settings for the label class myLabelClass
and the default behaviour for the root window together. The label class could now
be applied to the dialog.xml
The theme.xml in the turial's directory
is filled with more properties to try around with.
The resulting window should look like this, similar to the last example.