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skin vs renderer
What's the difference between a skin and a renderer?
If I wanted to have a selectable list of textareas and each textarea had
sections with different fonts and font sizes (to make it look like HTML),
which direction do I take?
I was looking at the ListViewItemRenderer and I don't see where I'd be the
logic "magic" is for setting something like this at the text level inside a
textarea. What goes into the render()/renderStyles() method?
Thanks,
Robert
Re: skin vs renderer
Posted by Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com>.
No, that approach isn't deprecated. Rich text in TextArea is deprecated. You can use the renderer code in that example as a model.
On May 7, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Robert Piotrowski wrote:
> Never mind. You have the renders code in the example.
>
> But that approach is deprecated now?
>
> Bob
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Robert Piotrowski <rp...@azonic.net> wrote:
> I want to show results from SOLR in a "Google style". I have a grid style finished, but the client wants it to look like Google.....
>
> I'd have to add some kind of yellow colored background for the "hit highlighting".
>
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Robert Piotrowski <rp...@azonic.net> wrote:
> Yes, that's one of the examples I was thinking about. How do you do that?
>
>
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> A skin defines the L&F of a component. A renderer is used by the skin to draw the component's content. For example, the Terra PushButton skin draws itself as a gray box with a border, but the skin uses the (default) renderer to draw the button's icon and text.
>
> Not quite sure what you mean by "selectable list of text areas". Maybe you could describe the use case a little more specifically? Are you thinking of something like what is shown in this tutorial?
>
> http://pivot.apache.org/tutorials/web-queries.html
>
> Note that, while support for rich text is currently stubbed out in TextArea, it isn't actually supported. The classes and APIs that would have supported it are deprecated for Pivot 1.5 and will be removed in Pivot 1.5.1. The best way to create text with different fonts and font sizes is to use a combination of Labels and layout containers such as TablePane and BoxPane.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Greg
>
> On May 7, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Robert Piotrowski wrote:
>
> > What's the difference between a skin and a renderer?
> >
> > If I wanted to have a selectable list of textareas and each textarea had sections with different fonts and font sizes (to make it look like HTML), which direction do I take?
> >
> > I was looking at the ListViewItemRenderer and I don't see where I'd be the logic "magic" is for setting something like this at the text level inside a textarea. What goes into the render()/renderStyles() method?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Robert
>
>
>
>
Re: skin vs renderer
Posted by Robert Piotrowski <rp...@azonic.net>.
Never mind. You have the renders code in the example.
But that approach is deprecated now?
Bob
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Robert Piotrowski <rp...@azonic.net>wrote:
> I want to show results from SOLR in a "Google style". I have a grid style
> finished, but the client wants it to look like Google.....
>
> I'd have to add some kind of yellow colored background for the "hit
> highlighting".
>
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Robert Piotrowski <rp...@azonic.net>wrote:
>
>> Yes, that's one of the examples I was thinking about. How do you do that?
>>
>>
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Robert,
>>>
>>> A skin defines the L&F of a component. A renderer is used by the skin to
>>> draw the component's content. For example, the Terra PushButton skin draws
>>> itself as a gray box with a border, but the skin uses the (default) renderer
>>> to draw the button's icon and text.
>>>
>>> Not quite sure what you mean by "selectable list of text areas". Maybe
>>> you could describe the use case a little more specifically? Are you thinking
>>> of something like what is shown in this tutorial?
>>>
>>> http://pivot.apache.org/tutorials/web-queries.html
>>>
>>> Note that, while support for rich text is currently stubbed out in
>>> TextArea, it isn't actually supported. The classes and APIs that would have
>>> supported it are deprecated for Pivot 1.5 and will be removed in Pivot
>>> 1.5.1. The best way to create text with different fonts and font sizes is to
>>> use a combination of Labels and layout containers such as TablePane and
>>> BoxPane.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>> On May 7, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Robert Piotrowski wrote:
>>>
>>> > What's the difference between a skin and a renderer?
>>> >
>>> > If I wanted to have a selectable list of textareas and each textarea
>>> had sections with different fonts and font sizes (to make it look like
>>> HTML), which direction do I take?
>>> >
>>> > I was looking at the ListViewItemRenderer and I don't see where I'd be
>>> the logic "magic" is for setting something like this at the text level
>>> inside a textarea. What goes into the render()/renderStyles() method?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >
>>> > Robert
>>>
>>>
>>
>
Re: skin vs renderer
Posted by Robert Piotrowski <rp...@azonic.net>.
I want to show results from SOLR in a "Google style". I have a grid style
finished, but the client wants it to look like Google.....
I'd have to add some kind of yellow colored background for the "hit
highlighting".
Bob
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Robert Piotrowski <rp...@azonic.net>wrote:
> Yes, that's one of the examples I was thinking about. How do you do that?
>
>
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> A skin defines the L&F of a component. A renderer is used by the skin to
>> draw the component's content. For example, the Terra PushButton skin draws
>> itself as a gray box with a border, but the skin uses the (default) renderer
>> to draw the button's icon and text.
>>
>> Not quite sure what you mean by "selectable list of text areas". Maybe you
>> could describe the use case a little more specifically? Are you thinking of
>> something like what is shown in this tutorial?
>>
>> http://pivot.apache.org/tutorials/web-queries.html
>>
>> Note that, while support for rich text is currently stubbed out in
>> TextArea, it isn't actually supported. The classes and APIs that would have
>> supported it are deprecated for Pivot 1.5 and will be removed in Pivot
>> 1.5.1. The best way to create text with different fonts and font sizes is to
>> use a combination of Labels and layout containers such as TablePane and
>> BoxPane.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> On May 7, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Robert Piotrowski wrote:
>>
>> > What's the difference between a skin and a renderer?
>> >
>> > If I wanted to have a selectable list of textareas and each textarea had
>> sections with different fonts and font sizes (to make it look like HTML),
>> which direction do I take?
>> >
>> > I was looking at the ListViewItemRenderer and I don't see where I'd be
>> the logic "magic" is for setting something like this at the text level
>> inside a textarea. What goes into the render()/renderStyles() method?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Robert
>>
>>
>
Re: skin vs renderer
Posted by Robert Piotrowski <rp...@azonic.net>.
Yes, that's one of the examples I was thinking about. How do you do that?
Bob
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> A skin defines the L&F of a component. A renderer is used by the skin to
> draw the component's content. For example, the Terra PushButton skin draws
> itself as a gray box with a border, but the skin uses the (default) renderer
> to draw the button's icon and text.
>
> Not quite sure what you mean by "selectable list of text areas". Maybe you
> could describe the use case a little more specifically? Are you thinking of
> something like what is shown in this tutorial?
>
> http://pivot.apache.org/tutorials/web-queries.html
>
> Note that, while support for rich text is currently stubbed out in
> TextArea, it isn't actually supported. The classes and APIs that would have
> supported it are deprecated for Pivot 1.5 and will be removed in Pivot
> 1.5.1. The best way to create text with different fonts and font sizes is to
> use a combination of Labels and layout containers such as TablePane and
> BoxPane.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Greg
>
> On May 7, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Robert Piotrowski wrote:
>
> > What's the difference between a skin and a renderer?
> >
> > If I wanted to have a selectable list of textareas and each textarea had
> sections with different fonts and font sizes (to make it look like HTML),
> which direction do I take?
> >
> > I was looking at the ListViewItemRenderer and I don't see where I'd be
> the logic "magic" is for setting something like this at the text level
> inside a textarea. What goes into the render()/renderStyles() method?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Robert
>
>
Re: skin vs renderer
Posted by Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com>.
Hi Robert,
A skin defines the L&F of a component. A renderer is used by the skin to draw the component's content. For example, the Terra PushButton skin draws itself as a gray box with a border, but the skin uses the (default) renderer to draw the button's icon and text.
Not quite sure what you mean by "selectable list of text areas". Maybe you could describe the use case a little more specifically? Are you thinking of something like what is shown in this tutorial?
http://pivot.apache.org/tutorials/web-queries.html
Note that, while support for rich text is currently stubbed out in TextArea, it isn't actually supported. The classes and APIs that would have supported it are deprecated for Pivot 1.5 and will be removed in Pivot 1.5.1. The best way to create text with different fonts and font sizes is to use a combination of Labels and layout containers such as TablePane and BoxPane.
Hope this helps.
Greg
On May 7, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Robert Piotrowski wrote:
> What's the difference between a skin and a renderer?
>
> If I wanted to have a selectable list of textareas and each textarea had sections with different fonts and font sizes (to make it look like HTML), which direction do I take?
>
> I was looking at the ListViewItemRenderer and I don't see where I'd be the logic "magic" is for setting something like this at the text level inside a textarea. What goes into the render()/renderStyles() method?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert