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Resolved Customizing theme, bold font

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  1. Libby Engelbret
    Libby Engelbret
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  3. Friday, 17 January 2020 18:39 PM UTC

I would like to customize a theme in PB 2019 to have a bold font.  Is there a way to do this?  If so, what is the JSON syntax?

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Libby Engelbret
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  1. Wednesday, 22 January 2020 21:54 PM UTC
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  3. # 1

Hi Michael,

thanks for responding.  I set it for every state except "disabled" and I still don't see it.  To make sure I was setting the right thing, I changed the color of the dwo.column text-font and that worked so I knew i was pointing to the correct place, but putting the weight in the exact same text-font section did nothing.

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Michael Kramer
  1. Michael Kramer
  2. Wednesday, 22 January 2020 21:58 PM UTC
Maybe difference per control type/subtype which style elements are supported? . . .

Could you verify that setting weight for checkbox control actually works for you? Otherwise the environment makes a difference.
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Michael Kramer
  1. Michael Kramer
  2. Wednesday, 22 January 2020 23:53 PM UTC
Hi Libby, I did some further testing.

FIRST => Documentation: Docs state that colors can be change but no info on test styles in general for any control type.

SECOND => Support for non-color style options is "partial". I experimented with bold = "Weight":700. CheckBox and CommandButton follows bold-marking. DataWindow columns and MultiLineEdit ignore it.

Mabybe we should nudge Appeon to expose which style options are available per component class? - or I go nuts testing out every single combo.
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Libby Engelbret
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  1. Wednesday, 22 January 2020 17:33 PM UTC
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I tried this under the DataWindow node for the dwo.column.  It does not appear to work. 

"dwo-column":
{
"text-font":{"color":"#000000","weight":700},

 

I validated my JSON, so I know that's not the problem.  Any ideas?

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Michael Kramer
  1. Michael Kramer
  2. Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:53 PM UTC
Which "state" sub-group did you add it to. Note: I added under "normal-state".

Another idea which is fast to test is "hover-state". As soon as your cursor moves across the checkbox it lights up in bold.



-- sorry, I just noticed: You are testing DWO-COLUMN within DataWindow?

That contains a multitude of edit-styles and states so you may have added/edited in a "section" that covers a different <item x state> that you desired.



If you start on checkbox like me => does it work on checkbox control on a window?

DataWindow is a true giant when it comes to theme setup. Rather start small and expand from there.
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Michael Kramer
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  1. Friday, 17 January 2020 20:09 PM UTC
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Hi, when I do this in my theme.json file, I get bold.

Remember to set BOLD for every state that needs to display in bold!

...
"checkbox":
{
    "drawing":true,
    "normal-state":
    {
        "text-font":{"color":"#000000", "weight":700}, // <=== WEIGHT
...

//  NOTE: Weight values:
//  100: Light
//  400: Regular
//  700: Bold
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