Comments on: A week at e4 – Themeing in e4

By: Stefan Nöbauer

Stefan Nöbauer — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:35:55 +0000

Is there a way to directly access the css via CSSEngine? I was trying to set the colors of the Eclipse 3.6 TabItem by simply try to get the background-color from the CSS ….. something like engine.getStyle(“TabItem”);

By: Eclipse 3.6 styling with CSS and the ThemeManager » Eclipse Papercuts

Eclipse 3.6 styling with CSS and the ThemeManager » Eclipse Papercuts — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:02:51 +0000

[...] styling with CSS and the ThemeManager No Comments by Lars Vogel / June 15th, 2010 Tom Schindl and Kai Tödter already blogged about the new Eclipse e4 ThemeManager. If you want to use the [...]

By: Lars Vogel

Lars Vogel — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:16:34 +0000

Forget my last sentence in the previous comment.

By: Lars Vogel

Lars Vogel — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:55:05 +0000

Thanks Tom. I updated in cvs the “org.eclipse.e4.ui.examples.css.rcp” example to use the Theme Manager.

Here is use ApplicationWorkbenchAdvisor initialize() to set another theme then the default one. I think setting lots of attributes to the default via extensioin points can be tiresome.

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A week at e4 – Share me please « Tomsondev Blog — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:00:26 +0000

[...] all the magic and because the CSS-Themeing is applied to 3.x, 4.0 and native e4-applications (see here how and why this possible) my editor looks and behaves the same on all 3 [...]

By: tomeclipsedev

tomeclipsedev — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:17:54 +0000

Yes. You can use Tree {}, Table {}, Composite {}, … but this will then naturally apply to ALL tables, trees, composite, … probably not what you want just like you use H2 {}, DIV {} in HTML+CSS. IIRC you can even use Composite.mycomp > Tree {} which would only apply to a Tree which is below a composite with the CSS-Class mycomp (but I might be wrong here).

By: Max Bureck

Max Bureck — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:36:45 +0000

Does the engine know default keys for the controls (e.g. qualified class names) following the convention over configuration paradigm? In other words: is it possible to theme elements that were not prepared using l.setData(CSS_CLASS_KEY, … )?
BTW: That stuff is very cool, great work!

By: tomeclipsedev

tomeclipsedev — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:48:36 +0000

There’s a default theme created and it is applied to the display at the start. The main problem is that none of the widgets, … have assigned IDs so all you can do is to globally redefine controls but I’m not sure this what you are looking for. The extension point allows you to contribute to this default theme. So what we could probably ship is something that creates a Perference Page to switch the theme.

By: Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:38:48 +0000

Is there anyway to bake in the theme support in 3.6? Creating your own view parts to give them the ability to be themed is kind of cumbersome.

By: tomeclipsedev

tomeclipsedev — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:27:53 +0000

I’ve added some information to the blog how to apply style sheets, switch themes, …