Re: theme additions

[Gregory Casamento]

This sounds good to me.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Richard
Frith-Macdonald<address@hidden> wrote:
> I have code to allow subclasses to replace the classes used for images and
> color lists by a theme, but I'm not sure they are really a good idea.
>
> The thing is, if we are interfacing to some 'native' theming engine, the end
> user may change the theme in use by that system, which may change the colors
> and images we should be using.  Now with the current theme code, we can
> manage that by having the theme notice the change and deactivate itsself,
> change saved color lists and images on disk, then reactivate itsself so that
> it uses the new information, but that's all a bit clumsy (especially if the
> actual change is rather minor).
>
> So all the update does is provide two methods which can be overridden to
> change the classes used by the theme to load the images and color lists.
>  The idea is that the NSImage and NSColorList subclasses used can then use
> the native theming engine where they need to, and can dynamically update the
> way they behave in response to a change in the native theme.
>
> Sounds OK?
>
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