RE: [XForms] skin packages for XForms?

[Clive Stubbings]

Hi Alessandro,

It depends on how "skinned" you want...

You can do quite a lot within xforms itself. That has the benefit that it has no 
WM dependencies.

Some years ago I wanted to "face lift" an app. It now can run in either normal 
xforms mode or in a lighter mode. (xforms 0.89 & 1.0)

http://www.ftree.org/screenshots.html

This needs some one-off set up and "overloading" a couple of fl_add functions, 
one for fl_add_checkbutton() and one for fl_add_input(). But it can be easilly 
enough handled automatically in make with some sed magic if you are using 
fdesign.

Cheers
Clive

alessandro basili wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm using XForms since a couple of years and in my group there hasn't
> been a real interest in changing the aspect of the interfaces because a
> lot of efforts have been put into consistency and simplicity.
>
> I'm just wondering whether in the community there are people who have
> worked out an easy way to modify aspect parameters in order to have a
> nicer appearance.
>
> My only constraint is that any change will need to remap color indexes,
> since they are heavily used in our libraries (FL_YELLOW, FL_BLUE....).
>
> Thanks a lot for any hint. Cheers