Comments on: Customizing BLAF for ADF Faces – easier than Skins for influencing colors and fonts

By: ruba

ruba — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:06:09 +0000

Hello

How can I edit this file to change the icon of component?

url(/skins/mycompany/skin_images/panelBoxTopBackgroundLight.png)
1px
15px

for example the above code did not work

By: Manolis Nikiforakis

Manolis Nikiforakis — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:21:32 +0000

Tried what the article says, without luck.
WORKING ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION FOUND: I returned the modified xss files in to the JAR (using winrar or winzip), restarted OC4J and it worked!

By: Arun

Arun — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:47:26 +0000

We have searched so long for exactly this. Finally i got. I tried this. But there is no change while executing the things.
I will listout what i have done.
1)I extract the adf-faces-impl.jar
2)i created a folder structre as you have mentiond (WEB-INF\lib\META-INF\adf\styles) and pasted the xss file here.
3) i made changes in xss file(oracle-desktop.xss)
4)I cleared the cache.
5)I excecuted the page.
But there is no change. Please help me out regardsing this.

Thanks & Regards,
Arun

By: microraptor

microraptor — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:08:34 +0000

Hmmm, just one follow-up issue … We occasionally get the Oracle BLAF images making a comeback, i.e finding their way into the browser cache to spoil the look of our customised version. I guess because the image file names are not changed, different customisations can’t coexist cleanly in the same browser instance with the original BLAF or with each other. The first version of an image that gets into the browser cache will dictate the look of that image until such time as the user clears the browser cache. Do you perhaps have a Cunning Plan to get around this? E.g. force bypassing of the cache, or somehow rename the image files, etc?

By: microraptor

microraptor — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:59:27 +0000

Lucas, you are THE MAN! We have searched so long for exactly this. I should have known to look at AMIS after the excellent Ajax tutorial. Thank you.

By: Michael A. Fons

Michael A. Fons — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:25:43 +0000

How is 4. above done? Is this same process also doable for the embedded oc4j? I am not getting any results from this exercise. 4. is not suggesting we change the adf-faces-impl.jar file, is it?

By: new2adf

new2adf — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:05:03 +0000

What I actually meant is I dont want to change the existing oracle.desktop file. So can i make the changes in a new file and use that instead of oracle.desktop.

By: new2adf

new2adf — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:03:21 +0000

Hi,can u tell me if i can make a new new-desktop.xss file and make the changes in that.If I can do that please tel me what to change in the config file.Should i set hte skin-family name to new instead of oracle?

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:22:58 +0000

Hi Lucas,

Interesting trick here. I’m having difficulty to set let’s say af:column, NoWrap and HeaderNoWrap property to true.

Anyone know how to do it?

2nd, How to have extra space (padding) on each column on left and right. Thus the table looks nice.

I couldn’t find extensive documentation on all these attributes.

Regards
Eric

By: Warzak

Warzak — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:13:27 +0000

Hi, I found a solution, I hope it’s not the best, in the jsp in #MyColor &
#0D3F96 in . Then, , I modified adf-faces-impl-ea17\oracle\adfinternal\view\faces\ui\laf\oracle\desktop\cImages\cctts.gif with a paint-like to replace the transparent zone with #MyColor.
Then re-make the .jar, delete the (tomcat cache -> …/work), give a kick in the cat and you have a panel box with the good color. I realy hope there’s an other solution…