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Resolved Exclude specific windows and user objects from being themed

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  1. Brad Wery
    Brad Wery
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  3. Tuesday, 29 September 2020 20:44 PM UTC

Is it possible to prevent a specific window or user object from having a theme applied to it?

e.g. w_main would have no theme at all.

I created a new theme-[xxxx].json file. I added blank entries for my objects:

"w_main":

{

}

The window is still themed.

It looks like PB will look in the theme-[xxxx] files first, then apply generic settings from theme.json.

Is it also possible to target an ancestor object?

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Ronnie Po
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  1. Tuesday, 29 September 2020 21:04 PM UTC
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I believe you have to include

"drawing":false

inside the bracketed section for w_main.

Unfortunately, themes (as of the current version) are not object-oriented aware.

 

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Wednesday, 30 September 2020 00:08 AM UTC
Ronnie is exactly right. Check the "How to turn off UI Theme at runtime" in this tech article: https://community.appeon.com/index.php/articles-blogs/tutorials-articles/2-powerbuilder/301-applying-a-new-ui-theme-to-your-application-2
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Miguel Leeuwe
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  1. Wednesday, 30 September 2020 21:30 PM UTC
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  3. # 1

A bit late, since I posted this on a completely wrong ticket as a comment:

 

As an example:

I only apply themes to "tabs". Here is the contents of my "theme-exclusions.json" to exclude a window called "w_combo_list_cq":

{
	"meta-info":
	{
		"version":"190"
	},
	"w_combo_list_cq$tab":
	{
		"drawing":false
	}
}
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Brad Wery
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  1. Thursday, 1 October 2020 15:16 PM UTC
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  3. # 2

Thanks everyone. Drawing: false was the key.

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