I had come across those resource files but was not sure how to implement so stuck to what I could figure out and it also allowed me to change the css file without having to rebuild as I understood it.
I have also created a pull request for the register changes / fixes that I had done without any of the colour updates that I was playing with, need to digest your other email while I do my monthly VM system update. Bob On 31 July 2017 at 20:52, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > On vrijdag 28 juli 2017 18:07:41 CEST Robert Fewell wrote: > > All, just for information I have been tinkering in the register code, > > mainly on the appearance, hopefully have some thing to pull after the > > weekend. > > What I have done so far is get the header alignment working, added a css > > class to set the background, text and border colours.Changed the sheet > cell > > alignment so all the borders are visible, added a css class for the > > GncItemEdit with the border colour used for the cursor and made it fit > the > > cell. > > > > Question, all of the css stuff is stored in the application gnucash.css > > file but if that is missing should there be hard coded defaults so the > > register is still readable or should that file missing stop the > application > > being loaded. > > > > Bob > > Bob, > > I'm back in town as of today and I'm slowly processing my backlog. > > I see you have been busy while I was away. Great! > > To answer your question: I would suggest to use the same approach as gtk > itself does. As the css is critical for the proper display of some of our > custom widgets, it should be included in the form of a GResource [1] > directly > into the binary instead of a file on disk that may or may not be present. > Gtk > does this for example for its (default) Adwaita theme. More details may be > found directlyin the gtk sources. > > Your css work so far and this mail made me think some more about the css > concept for gnucash and perhaps we need to refine our initial idea. I'll > post > those in a separate mail though. > > Geert > > > [1] https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GResource.html > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
