TIBCO General Interface - CSS Guide
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This document provides a guide to applying styles to GUI components in TIBCO General Interface using CSS. It discusses using the properties editor to set font, box, and CSS properties for components. It also covers applying styles through CSS files, overriding default CSS, dynamic property files, CDF documents, component editing, and value templates for matrix components. The goal is to demonstrate different ways to style components consistently using CSS.
![Applying Style
Setting Style
Using component properties (examples)
Name: accept existing font name
Size: font size in px
Weight: Bold/Normal
Color : [Hex code, Eg. #00FF00]
BG Color: [Hex code, Eg. #00FF00]
Padding: padding in px [Eg. 5 or 5 10 5 10]
Border: [Eg. Solid 1px, Solid 1px #b90010, dashed 2px #00FF00]
Overflow : Scroll/Hidden/Expand
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CSS Rule
This is the place where we can specify CSS class from the CSS Style file
CSS Style class file can be created using
Menu > File > New > CSS File
CSS Class can be written like this
.cssClassName{
[some CSS style];
}
While writing the class name in the CSS Rule Name property it should be
without ‘ . ’ (dot)
Eg.
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To apply style to GI’s label component, it need to write in this way
#JSX .[classname]{}
EG. #JSX .headerText{…}](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/tibcogi-cssgudie-090908092604-phpapp02/85/TIBCO-General-Interface-CSS-Guide-15-320.jpg)
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Dynamic Property File
Use of this file is useful while applying CSS and reusability
While applying CSS using Properties Editor, many times CSS style gets repeat for
repeated components
Eg. For Textboxes used on form, We need to override border for certain textbox
repeatedly using Border property from Property Editor, Then instead of repeating same
style [like ‘solid 1px #DDFFGG’] at all the places, it is good practice to use Dynamic
Property File.
In this file we create key-value pair, where key is name which we want to give for
particular style and value is CSS style which need to apply against the name.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/tibcogi-cssgudie-090908092604-phpapp02/85/TIBCO-General-Interface-CSS-Guide-16-320.jpg)
TIBCO General Interface - CSS Guide
- 1. TIBCO General Interface – CSS GUDIE Rohan Chandane 8th September 2009 © 2008 MindTree Consulting
- 2. Style Guide Applying style to basic GUI component Select a component Ctrl + Click From Component Hierarchy Choose Properties Editor Ctrl + 2 Menu > Palettes > Properties Editor Most of the components have two-three common sections in properties Font and Box CSS Slide 2
- 3. Continued… Font (Some Common Properties) Name Size Weight Color Box (Some Common Properties) BG Color Padding Margin Border Text Align and Overflow Slide 3
- 4. Continued… CSS CSS Override This will override CSS class style CSS Rule This is CSS class name in CSS file Slide 4
- 5. Applying Style Setting Style Using component properties (examples) Name: accept existing font name Size: font size in px Weight: Bold/Normal Color : [Hex code, Eg. #00FF00] BG Color: [Hex code, Eg. #00FF00] Padding: padding in px [Eg. 5 or 5 10 5 10] Border: [Eg. Solid 1px, Solid 1px #b90010, dashed 2px #00FF00] Overflow : Scroll/Hidden/Expand Slide 5
- 6. Continued… Using CSS Override Style which is unable to achieved using basic styling properties, CSS override allow to write actual CSS syntax. Eg. border-top:solid 1px #c6c6c6;border-bottom:solid 1px #c6c6c6;border-right:solid 1px #c6c6c6; This can be also used to override CSS Rule (which is CSS calss) Slide 6
- 7. Continued… CSS Rule This is the place where we can specify CSS class from the CSS Style file CSS Style class file can be created using Menu > File > New > CSS File CSS Class can be written like this .cssClassName{ [some CSS style]; } While writing the class name in the CSS Rule Name property it should be without ‘ . ’ (dot) Eg. Slide 7
- 8. CSS Override Overriding of CSS styles in GI CSS Rule (CSS Class) CSS Override This will override CSS class’s style Styling Properties This will override CSS Override’s style Slide 8
- 9. Different ways to apply Style CSS File Overriding default CSS Dynamic Property File CDF document Component Editing Value Template Slide 9
- 10. Continued… CSS File Create CSS file (Menu > File > New > CSS File) Eg. : Style.css .bottonRight{ background: url(dialog-overlay_squard-cornered.gif) bottom left no-repeat; } .formBoxHeaderText{ font-family: Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #001f45; font-weight: bold; } Use this class using ‘CSS Rule Name’ Property
- 11. Continued… Project File Panel Setting To see the effect of the style on UI Screen, Right click on Style.css file. Click on Auto Load. Auto Load option can be changed from Edit Profile… Option too. You can either keep it Auto load at application init or can load it manually. Whenever changes made in style and want to see how it reflect on screen, it need to Load/Reload option Context Menu showing option - Auto Load - Edit Profile… - Load/Reload
- 12. Continued… Overriding default(master) CSS There are default CSS classes for UI components, set by General Interface in CSS file. There are different CSS files for different browsers For Internet explorer , at JSXcssieJSX.css For Firefox , at JSXcssfxJSX.css For Safari , at JSXcsssafJSX.css To change the particular component ‘s style in GI, it need to find CSS class for that component from JSX.css and override it in user created CSS file
- 13. Continued… To override GI default CSS class, it need to prefix #JSX Eg. To override GI’s Dialog Box CSS class, it should be like this Here, overriding border-width from 1px to 0px. Default is 1px #JSX .jsx30dialog { border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; border-color: #c6c6c6 #a6a6a6 #a6a6a6 #c6c6c6; }
- 14. Continued… jsx.css can also be tweaked. Its better idea to use modified duplicate of jsx.css than actually changing jsx.css
- 15. Continued… To apply style to GI’s label component, it need to write in this way #JSX .[classname]{} EG. #JSX .headerText{…}
- 16. Continued… Dynamic Property File Use of this file is useful while applying CSS and reusability While applying CSS using Properties Editor, many times CSS style gets repeat for repeated components Eg. For Textboxes used on form, We need to override border for certain textbox repeatedly using Border property from Property Editor, Then instead of repeating same style [like ‘solid 1px #DDFFGG’] at all the places, it is good practice to use Dynamic Property File. In this file we create key-value pair, where key is name which we want to give for particular style and value is CSS style which need to apply against the name.
- 17. Continued… Eg. @TextBoxBorder : solid 1px #DDFFGG; Where ‘@TextBoxBorder ‘ is key and ‘solid 1px #DDFFGG;’ is value Other than this it need to specify type for which property we need to create this key- value pair. For example – jsxtext jsxbgcolor jsxborder etc. By right clicking on that particular property in Properties Editor, key name will be appear in context menu. Select that as property value. Dynamic Property File view for setting CSS key-values
- 18. Continued… The benefit of using this file is, when ever it need to change style for the component, style needs to update dynamic property file and it will be reflected to all as key is set for all related component. It helps to reduce change in style for all components needed. Right click on Border will give option in Dynamic Property File
- 19. Continued… CDF document Style can be set using CDF document CDF document attribute jsxstyle Eg. <record id=“01” jsxtext=“Hello” jsxstyle=“color:#00FF00”/> Can be used with matrix, tree, table
- 20. Continued… Component Editing Some component need to be styled by adding some tags into it’s xml structure This is when, it doesn’t have properties to define class or they doesn’t have specific CSS properties Eg. Matrix Component In order to style its alternative rows all together (columns) it need to add ‘<xslparameters >’ tag <xslparameters jsx_rowbg1="#E4EEFA" jsx_rowbg2="#C4D6EC"> </xslparameters>
- 21. Continued… Value Template For Matrix component, formatting or coloring of data is achieved using fragments of XSL style sheets known as value templates Columns of a Matrix component have a property field called value template where XSL can be placed to affect the output during runtime http://www.tibcommunity.com/docs/DOC-1594
- 22. Continued… Sample Value Template XSL <xsl:template match="record" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <div> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="{0}='United Kingdom'"> <xsl:attribute name="style"> background-color: pink;</xsl:attribute></xsl:when> </xsl:choose> <xsl:value-of select="{0}"/> </div> </xsl:template> ‘record’ is the <record> tag in CDF, which is the data provider for matrix
- 23. Continued… ‘record’ is the <record> tag in CDF, which is the data provider for matrix <xsl:when test="{0}='United Kingdom'"> It means when column is ‘United Kingdom’ Example
- 24. Component Specific Style Matrix Applying CSS to matrix component in different ways xslparameters tag Matrix Components CSS properties Value templates Dynamic property file There is no direct method to apply CSS class directly to matrix or its cells
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