Question concerning skinning and concerning renderer engine

[Pi...@dmr.ca]

Greetings,

After some days/weeks of research done by a small group of people and the 
facts that we havn't found a lot of useful information, i'm turning to 
this dev mailing list in a hope that someone might know the information we 
are looking for !

The main goal is to allow a ProcessTrain component to be fully skinnable. 
More precisely, to make every aspect of it be aliased to a user created 
image. From the information gathered so far, a skinning file (the .css) 
permits the modification of 4 aspects (images) which are Visited / 
Unvisited / Active / Disabled. This was answered in the forum under the 
link below... from someone who's part of this mailing list =) !   (thx for 
that answer btw)
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=1290280&#1290280

However, this isn't sufficient to our needs, thus we kept digging to see 
if the "rendering engine" itself could somehow be modified so the images 
used by it to create the visual look of the ProcessTrain could be 
modified.
Those images (the 19   *.gif starting with the letter "t") are hold in :
\adf-faces-impl\src\main\resources\org\apache\myfaces\adfinternal\ui\laf\oracle\desktop\cImages

While digging in the code, we ended at the Configuration.java, which is 
under the path :
\adf-faces-impl\src\main\java\org\apache\myfaces\adfinternal\share\config\Configuration.java

Clearly, from this class definition, it is possible in a way to get the 
URI and get the Path since both method exists. This is where we met our 
wall and thus bring my question that follow.

Is it possible to access the information (probably a sort of collection or 
table array) where the intern references are kept that link the images 
used to render a ProcessTrain ?
Or, is this rendering and aliasing of those images kept out of reach from 
the developper, thus, what we are trying to do, is in fact impossible 
currently?

If someone is knowledgeable enough to answer those questions (be it only 
partly) any pieces of informations would help us at this point.
Thanks!

Re: Question concerning skinning and concerning renderer engine

[Jeanne Waldman <je...@oracle.com>]

Hello,

I'm the one that answered your OTN question. I didn't realize you were 
spending days and weeks of research on this! I'm sorry about that. I was 
told you found a different component.

I'd say it is impossible to do what you want to do unless you add these 
image 'hooks' in base.desktop's ProcessTrainRenderer.java. You would 
need to muck with the rendering code to put in additional skinnable hoos 
like those that are there already. Then you would set those image hooks 
to either null images, or very basic images in the SimpleDesktopSkin. 
Then, you would document these hooks, like we do in the 
skin-selectors.xml document, and the end user (you?) can add their own 
images to these hooks, and make the processTrain look like the one in 
the 'oracle' skin.

I haven't had a good look at the base ProcessTrainRenderer, so I'm not 
sure how hard it would be to put in the hooks that you need.

The ADF Faces code is now in apache, and renamed to Trinidad. You can 
create an issue

  http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ADFFACES

, and maybe someone can fix this issue for you. Or you could check out 
the code and make the contribution yourself. It would be reviewed and 
committed by someone with committer status.

I hope this helps. Maybe you'll get additional suggestions on this forum.

- Jeanne

Pierre-Luc_Archambault@dmr.ca wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>After some days/weeks of research done by a small group of people and the 
>facts that we havn't found a lot of useful information, i'm turning to 
>this dev mailing list in a hope that someone might know the information we 
>are looking for !
>
>The main goal is to allow a ProcessTrain component to be fully skinnable. 
>More precisely, to make every aspect of it be aliased to a user created 
>image. From the information gathered so far, a skinning file (the .css) 
>permits the modification of 4 aspects (images) which are Visited / 
>Unvisited / Active / Disabled. This was answered in the forum under the 
>link below... from someone who's part of this mailing list =) !   (thx for 
>that answer btw)
>http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=1290280&#1290280
>
>However, this isn't sufficient to our needs, thus we kept digging to see 
>if the "rendering engine" itself could somehow be modified so the images 
>used by it to create the visual look of the ProcessTrain could be 
>modified.
>Those images (the 19   *.gif starting with the letter "t") are hold in :
>\adf-faces-impl\src\main\resources\org\apache\myfaces\adfinternal\ui\laf\oracle\desktop\cImages
>
>While digging in the code, we ended at the Configuration.java, which is 
>under the path :
>\adf-faces-impl\src\main\java\org\apache\myfaces\adfinternal\share\config\Configuration.java
>
>Clearly, from this class definition, it is possible in a way to get the 
>URI and get the Path since both method exists. This is where we met our 
>wall and thus bring my question that follow.
>
>Is it possible to access the information (probably a sort of collection or 
>table array) where the intern references are kept that link the images 
>used to render a ProcessTrain ?
>Or, is this rendering and aliasing of those images kept out of reach from 
>the developper, thus, what we are trying to do, is in fact impossible 
>currently?
>
>If someone is knowledgeable enough to answer those questions (be it only 
>partly) any pieces of informations would help us at this point.
>Thanks!
>  
>