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qooxdoo Beginner's Guide

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qooxdoo Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Over the past few years, all the major internet or enterprise applications are developed or migrated to Rich Internet Application to support all the features that are provided in the desktop applications. This helps organizations keep the end users happy and also improves application deployment and maintenance. qooxdoo is a stable, open source RIA framework. If you are waiting and watching for the right time to migrate your application to qooxdoo, this is the right time!This book explains in detail about the rich user interface development in qooxdoo. It explains various concepts of qooxdoo framework in an easy to grasp and organized way, making it simple even for a novice in qooxdoo and also increases the competency level of the developer who is already working in qooxdoo.This book helps developers understand the qooxdoo framework, setup the environment, and start the development of RIA using qooxdoo. You will learn the core programming techniques in qooxdoo, user interface development in qooxdoo, testing & debugging qooxdoo applications, internationalization of qooxdoo applications to multiple languages, customizing the look and feel of qooxdoo applications using Themes, Performance management, etc.In the course of the book, we develop a complete application which will help the developer to understand the concepts better and to put things together to see the step-by-step progress to complete an application. By the end, this book will get the developer accustomed to the widgets and API available in the qooxdoo framework, and will enable him to design, develop, debug, and test the RIA in qooxdoo.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
qooxdoo
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References

Chapter 9. Working with Themes

This chapter explains the theme feature in qooxdoo framework. Themes enable you to change the look and feel of the application. You can use one of the themes available in the qooxdoo framework or you can customize the theme for your requirement. You don't need to know CSS, as the theme is configured in the qooxdoo classes. qooxdoo allows you to customize the styles through themes.

In the last chapter, we internationalized the Team Twitter application and localized it to multiple languages. Now, let us change the look and feel. In this chapter, we will explore the Themes feature, change the themes to the different available themes in qooxdoo framework, and then customize the theme for the Team Twitter application.

In this chapter, we will look at the following:

  • Meta theme

  • Color theme

  • Font theme

  • Decoration theme

  • Appearance theme

Let us explore the theme feature of the qooxdoo framework.

Theme

qooxdoo allows you to keep the styles of the graphical user interface separately...