Syntax of presentation styles file (.4st)

A .4st presentation styles file is an XML file defining style attributes to be applied by front-ends.

Syntax (.4st)

<StyleList>
  <Style name="style-identifier" >
    <StyleAttribute name="attribute-name" value="attribute-value" />
      [...]
  </Style>
  [...]
</StyleList>
where style-identifier is:
{ element-type.style-name [ :pseudo-selector ]
| element-type [ :pseudo-selector ]
| .style-name [ :pseudo-selector ]
| *
}
where element-type is one of:
{ Button | Edit | ButtonEdit | CheckBox | ComboBox
| RadioGroup | SpinEdit | DateEdit | DateTimeEdit
| Image | Label | Slider | TimeEdit | TextEdit
| ProgressBar | WebComponent
| Form | Folder | Page | Grid | Group | HBox | VBox
| ScrollGrid | Table | Tree
| Menu | Message | Action | MenuAction
| ToolBar | ToolBarSeparator | TopMenu
| UserInterface | Window
}
and where pseudo-selector is one of:
{ focus | inactive | active
| query | display | input
| even | odd
| message | error | summaryLine
}
  1. element-type is the type of the AUI tree element, such as Edit, Window. The element-type is case sensitive. When only using element-type, the style applies to all elements of this type. When combining element-type.style-name, it applies to elements of this element type and using the STYLE="style-name" form attribute. See also Element types.
  2. style-name is an explicit style name, that can be referenced in STYLE attributes of form items. The style-name is case sensitive. When only using .style-name, the style applies to all elements using the STYLE="style-name" form attribute. When combining element-type.style-name, it applies to elements of the specified type and using the STYLE="style-name" form attribute.
  3. pseudo-selector indicates in what context the style should apply. See Pseudo selectors for more details.
  4. attribute-name defines the name of the style attribute.
  5. attribute-value defines the value to be assigned to attribute-name.

Syntax of attribute values

Presentation style attribute values are always specified as strings, for example: 
<StyleAttribute name="fontFamily" value="Serif" />

Numeric values must be specified in quotes:

<StyleAttribute name="completionTimeout" value="60" />
Boolean values must be specified with the values "yes" or "no":
<StyleAttribute name="forceDefaultSettings" value="yes" />

For backward compatibility, the values 0/1 and true/false are supported by some front-ends. Use exclusively the yes/no values.