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Primefaces Theme development

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Primefaces Theme development

Overview of this book

Developing stunning themes for web applications has never been easier! PrimeFaces delivers a powerful set of features that enables JSF developers to create and customize awesome themes on the web. It is very easy to use because it comes as a single JAR file and requires no mandatory XML configuration. With more than 30 out-of-the-box themes, jQuery integration, a mobile UI toolkit, Ajax Push technology, and much more, PrimeFaces takes JSF application development to a whole new level! This book is a hands-on example-rich guide to creating and customizing PrimeFaces themes using available tools. Beginning with creating a JSF project and integrating the PrimeFaces library, this book will introduce you to the features of theme components, how these are structured, and how PrimeFaces uses JQuery UI to apply a theme to your application. You will learn to examine and change the CSS rules and get creative by setting standard icons and adding new icons to them. You will use a combination of JavaScript and CSS to enhance your application with help of scheduler component and go on to adapt and package your custom theme so that it is compatible with the Resource Manager. Finally, you will explore PrimeFaces mobile apps, ensuring themes are compatible with your mobile applications best practices for theme design.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
PrimeFaces Theme Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

A lack of skinning support for date and event selection


Let us now try to attach AJAX listener methods for date and event selection to display event properties in a pop-up box. The returned event object for both the date and the event selection AJAX behaviors contains the title, start date, end date, and all day properties:

public void onEventSelect(SelectEvent selectEvent) {
  event = (ScheduleEvent) selectEvent.getObject();
}

public void onDateSelect(SelectEvent selectEvent) {
  event = new DefaultScheduleEvent("", (Date) selectEvent.getObject(),(Date) selectEvent.getObject());
}

The returned event object from the preceding listener methods will be accessed by the dialog component to display the properties.

Click on the currently selected date. The event details in an editable format will be displayed, as follows:

Clicking on the existing schedule event will display the event details in an editable format, as follows:

From the preceding screenshots, we can clearly see that PrimeFaces doesn...