Styles
Presentation styles centralize the style attributes related to the decoration of the graphical user interface elements.
Presentation styles can influence the look-and-feel of a window or form by defining decoration
attributes, such as font properties and foreground/background colors. Some style attributes are
specific to a given class of widgets; for example, the firstDayOfWeek
attribute is
specific to DateEdit
and DateTimeEdit
elements.
The decoration attributes are defined in a separate file, which can be easily modified to customize the application. This file is a Genero presentation style file, a resource file with a .4st extension. The presentation style file must be distributed with other runtime files.
The presentation style topics in this guide detail how to use Studio to preview a form using a
specified presentation style file, and how to set the style for a form element. To apply a style
file in your Genero application, you must load the style file using the
ui.Interface.loadStyles
method, as detailed under Presentation styles
in the Genero Business Development Language User Guide.