p3ptools
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| Posted: 07/08/2004, 3:26 PM |
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Hello,
is it possible to change a site wide theme on the fly,
say in response to a user preference?
Stephen
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peterr
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| Posted: 07/08/2004, 4:54 PM |
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Yes but this involves some changes that could damage your project if something goes wrong. General steps:
1. Backup your project.
2. Copy the Themes that you plan to use to your project folder (from C:\Program Files\CodeChargeStudio\Components\Themes)
3. Rename Theme names in all Style.css files from (ThemeName) to "Default", so that all Style.css files in Themes subfolders refer to "Default" theme.
4. Run Search & Replace on your HTML files to replace "Themes/(ThemeName)" with nothing. This is intended to remove all reference to specific themes. (ThemeName) would be the name of the main theme that you use in your pages.
5. Run Search & Replace on your HTML files to replace (ThemeName) with "Default".
6. Open each page and in the HTML mode place this HTML snippet below the <title> tag:
<base href="http://localhost/DynamicTheme/Themes/{Label1}/">
However, instead of typing {Label1} insert there the actual Label from the Toolbox.
7. Create the BeforeShow event for Label1 that will dynamically change its value to the name of the Theme that you want to select at run-time. For example in PHP: $Label1->SetValue("Aqua"); would apply the "Auqa" Theme to the page.
8. Publish the page to test it out. If something doesn't look right it's possible that the modified Style.css weren't published. You can then manually copy your Theme directory to the server, or change Project Settings to publish "All files with extensions" instead of "Project Files".
9. This is it.
Backup your project again, especially the Themes that you copied to your project folder and then modified (Style.css files).
It may be actually better to backup and modify the Style.css files directly in "C:\Program Files\CodeChargeStudio\Components\Themes" folder. I can expand on this once you get your dynamic Themes initially working the way I described.
Please keep this mind that this is an unsupported solution and our support may not be able to help you implement this if you cannot. It is offered only as a tip for experienced users.
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p3ptools
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| Posted: 08/03/2004, 1:33 PM |
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Hello,
this dynamic method worked ok.
I now have a system where users can change to different style's.
Stephen
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