very basic listbox code request for comments

[Timmy Douglas]

Timmy Douglas <timmy+slate at cc.gatech.edu> writes:

> "Brian T. Rice" <water at tunes.org> writes:
>
>> On Sun, April 23, 2006 1:18 pm, Timmy Douglas said:
>>> "Brian T. Rice" <water at tunes.org> writes:
>>>> Otherwise it looks like a decent start. Feel free to experiment with
>>>> idioms for new nouns and verbs until the code feels more natural.
>>>
>>> One thing that would probably be nice to have before going further
>>> on making the components is like a 'theme settings' type object
>>> where I could get the appropriate font/colors to use everywhere.
>>
>> I agree. XML-type styles or CSS and so forth strike me as ideas that
>> should carry over into non-web UI architecture, and I consider this
>> sort of thing a worthwhile addition to Slate's UI layer.
>
> Well, I'm back from my break before the summer semester starts and I
> decided to play around with having a central repository for
> color/etc. See what you think... It doesn't really have any XML or
> CSS ideas in it now though.

I forgot to say the problem was when you change the theme you might
overwrite colors that were set manually by the user/programmer. I
don't know a good way to do it so that it doesn't do this and have it
transparent to the programmer. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas.