Look and Feel

The lookAndFeel style attribute allows you to customize your application.

All widgets used by GDC can follow a given style, which defines how a widget must be drawn on the screen. By default, it uses the system platform style. The internal style used by GDC will be modified.

If you are a skilled C++ developer, you can build your own style, following Qt's guidelines. This gives you an example of what can be done.

A few built-in styles are provided; the list varies based on the platform where the GDC runs. You can view the list of built-in styles provided for a platform by viewing the Information tab in the Genero Desktop Client console's About box.

The screen shot shows the list that is provided in the message area of the About window, when on the Information tab.

Figure 1. Viewing the list of look-and-feel presentation styles

Example

This example of a 4st file defines a window style using a "dotnetoffice" look-and-feel.

<Style name="Window.Office">
  <StyleAttribute name="lookAndFeel" value="dotnetoffice" />
</Style>