Color schemes

[Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com>]

Hi all,

I sent out a similar email a while back but didn't get any response, so I'll send it again.  :-)  

The default Pivot L&F supports configurable color schemes. However, the platform currently only includes one. It is a decent cross platform scheme that looks good on all of the major OSes, but it would be nice if we could provide a few more. Specifically, I would like to include color schemes that are tailored to the L&F of the following platforms:

- Windows XP
- Windows 7
- Mac OS X 10.5+

However, I don't have the graphical talent to create something like this. If anyone is interested in helping out, or knows a designer who might be, please let me know. 

Thanks,
Greg

Re: Color schemes

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi to all,
cross-posted here so if someone has comments etc can write also here.

This is a short summary:
none gave an answer, so I'll try to take this, and to keep track of things
I'm adding a JIRA ticket.

This is the original discussion: 
http://apache-pivot-developers.417237.n3.nabble.com/Color-schemes-td963453.html#a963453


As always, comments etc are welcome.

Bye,
Sandro

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Re: Color schemes

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Ok, and this is the related issue:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-579

Bye

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Re: Color schemes

[Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com>]

Thanks Sandro. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

On Jul 23, 2010, at 8:24 AM, Sandro Martini wrote:

> 
> Hi to all,
> also this time none gave an answer, so I can try to take this task (I'll add
> a ticket for this in JIRA, for the 2.0 release).
> 
> On platforms, I have Windows XP and Windows 7, and also Ubuntu 10.04, but I
> haven't a Mac so on this I can't help (I can try with some screenshot but I
> don't know ...).
> 
> So, what do you think if I take a (backupped) version of the Dark colors and
> add comments to explain each color index where is used ? Could be very
> useful to anyone wants to make a similar thing (last year when I've done
> this I had to check Pivot code many hours to understand this). And this
> could become a template for users, but in this case probably should be moved
> / copied inside the skin packages (for example the TerraTheme_dark.json now
> is in tutorials).
> 
> And for new json files, to simplify its usage, probably they should go
> inside packages of Terra skin, and if possible in a user-friendly package
> ...
> 
> 
> Note that probably I'll have to resolve this ticket to have more flexibility
> in color management here:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-245
> (already assigned to me).
> Related to this ticket, what do you think if I'd add also a boolean dark (or
> isDark) attribute (default false and not present in skin json file) but that
> could help in some cases (in the skin to make some decision on colors) ?
> 
> 
> And last (but important), to test the behavior I can use two strategies:
> - use the Kitchen Sink demo (executed with the flag on the command line for
> loading the custom colors file), but note that here some components have
> their color always overridden, so if possible I should remove some overrides
> there (if not all, at least some), ok ?
> - use the Component Explorer, but in this case I think that the problem is
> that I can't reload colors without restarting the application, right ?
> 
> 
> As always, if someone has comments, tell me.
> 
> Bye,
> Sandro
> 
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Re: Color schemes

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi to all,
also this time none gave an answer, so I can try to take this task (I'll add
a ticket for this in JIRA, for the 2.0 release).

On platforms, I have Windows XP and Windows 7, and also Ubuntu 10.04, but I
haven't a Mac so on this I can't help (I can try with some screenshot but I
don't know ...).

So, what do you think if I take a (backupped) version of the Dark colors and
add comments to explain each color index where is used ? Could be very
useful to anyone wants to make a similar thing (last year when I've done
this I had to check Pivot code many hours to understand this). And this
could become a template for users, but in this case probably should be moved
/ copied inside the skin packages (for example the TerraTheme_dark.json now
is in tutorials).

And for new json files, to simplify its usage, probably they should go
inside packages of Terra skin, and if possible in a user-friendly package
...


Note that probably I'll have to resolve this ticket to have more flexibility
in color management here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-245
(already assigned to me).
Related to this ticket, what do you think if I'd add also a boolean dark (or
isDark) attribute (default false and not present in skin json file) but that
could help in some cases (in the skin to make some decision on colors) ?


And last (but important), to test the behavior I can use two strategies:
- use the Kitchen Sink demo (executed with the flag on the command line for
loading the custom colors file), but note that here some components have
their color always overridden, so if possible I should remove some overrides
there (if not all, at least some), ok ?
- use the Component Explorer, but in this case I think that the problem is
that I can't reload colors without restarting the application, right ?


As always, if someone has comments, tell me.

Bye,
Sandro

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