v5.6, new W8 themes + theme per form

Hi support,
I have been playing around with the different themes and the new W8 themes are not displayed correctly (i think). When trying all of the themes in the CRM sample application there is no difference between them and it seems as though the only working theme is the black one. Is this a bug, something i am missing or possible some limitation on the CRM sample application?
Also in the new v 5.6 overview you have written that we now can use different themes for different forms, subforms etc., how do i configure this?

Thanks, regards Henrik

Only the Windows8(black) seems to be active. Selecting other Windows8 themes activates this (black) theme only.

http://awareim.com/aware-im-5-6-is-released/

you can now customize themes even further to visually differentiate parts of your application. For example, forms for all processes related to user registration can have green background; billing forms may have blue background, etc.

I can't seem to find this option either.

Rennur, support:

Did we find out how to have different themes for different forms?

Cheers Rod

There are 2 new themes I can see:

C:\AwareIM\Tomcat\webapps\AwareIM\ext-4.1.0\resources\
Accent & Blue Bay

I can't find the W8 themes.

Still don't know how to define different themes to different forms.

Cheers

Check out Ordering sample application, which has an example of how these themes are used and how they are differentiated for different forms and grids. I believe this is also documented somewhere.

The difference in default forms is only seen for the current active popup window. You won't see any difference otherwise. You can, however, apply colors to your individual forms and queries by using the new Advanced option (available for both forms, queries and form sections). See how this is used in the Ordering application. If you click on the Advanced button in the Staff Editing form of the PurchaseOrder object, for example, you will see this script:

config.ui = "orange-panel"

This sets the color to "orange". You can also use "blue", "green", "red", "black"

Setting a color like this is only available for Windows8 themes, not other themes

Hi Support,

Only the Windows8(black) seems to be active. Selecting other Windows8 themes activates this (black) theme only.

Can't get Windows8 themes to work.

Is (gray) theme the only one to work anyway and the others are for setting up different form colours only?

Does Ordering work? Ordering is supposed to display everything to do with orders in orange, everything to do with customers in blue and the rest - in green

Just re-checked. Ordering works fine in build 1640, so the themes work fine as well. Either something is wrong in your setup or you are doing something wrong

Hi Support,

Ordering works fine and the different form colours work fine.

What I'm trying to do is change the theme from 'Theme Management (selection)' menu in the standard folder. Same when selecting other Clifton themes but the Win8 themes always revert back to (gray). Cannot select other Win8 themes.

Ordering has the theme Windows8 Green setup as through AdminVP>General>Themes which works fine.

Cheers

Dynamic change of the themes doesn't work properly for some themes yet - see other forum post somewhere.

Searching forum on
Windows8, Windows 8 themes,
windows8 themes, dynamic selection, theme selection

0 Results.

If there was such a post it would probably be before the new ver5.6 was released with these new themes.

I don't thinks there is posts regarding this since the 5.6 release.

Anyway its not a big issue, Windows8 themes are nothing special, plain boring in my opinion.

After playing around with the new W8 themes a bit (+ reading posts on this) i figured out how to use the theme per form function. It works as it should. Also the new W8 themes work when setting a fixed theme per BS (dynamic theme change is not working).

Support: When it comes to the new themes, i like them, they are quite nice and modern but i was wondering regarding the theme icons. I have tested all W8 themes and throughout the themes the same icon set but in different colors have been used (black, orange etc), is this a icon set we can use?, purchase?, find somewhere? I have played around a bit using the famfamfam icons with the W8 themes and it works quite nice but for some parts of an application using W8 themes i can imagine it being better with the same set of icons as the themes.

By the way, how does one create themes? Is this something we ourselves can do? Is there a theme generator possible?

Thanks, regards Henrik

There is a "vector" equivalent of the famfam icons. I cannot remember where we got it from. Both this set and famfam are free to use.

Creating a theme is not easy, but you can do it yourself. There are companies who specialise in theme creation, so you can purchase from them. You need to look for themes for the Sencha 4 library

Ok, i'll browse the web for icons. Too bad there is no template generator for Sencha themes.
Regards Henrik

Setting a color like this is only available for Windows8 themes, not other themes

Support,
So what is so special about Windows themes that lets you do this ?

Surely there must be a way to bring this feature into other themes !

It depends on a theme itself. Windows 8 themes do support the "ui" parameters, other themes don't. You can, however, modify a theme yourself and add the appropriate classes - you do need to understand how this works in CSS, though.

Azzurra is a visually appealing theme for Ext JS applications inspired by Windows 8 desktop look and feel.

Some Azzura Theme option I have found:

Panel UI
By default, panels appear gray and they don't inherit base color from a window they appear within.

Colors can be changed for the Windows, Panels, Tabs & Buttons

Check out Azzurra (Windows8-) theme website
https://store.codaxy.com/Themes/Azzurra

The colour changing is was developed as part of this theme only for use with ExtJS. All other themes would have to be re-written (copied) by their respective developers to include this.

In my earlier post i said:

Windows8 themes are nothing special, plain boring in my opinion.

The theme's "plain boring" look was quite intentional as it was optimized for performance.

Cheers

Thanks for the info on the themes, also i actually noticed the performance boost testing this theme compared to the others.

Regards, Henrik