How to load ma own theme into the theme builder ?

[stephanParticipant]

Hi,

I have used the theme builder to create a customized theme, based on “fresh”, but with quite a few modifications. This worked OK, but now I have to make some more modifications to my theme. I am searching for an option to load my own theme back into the theme builder to continue working on it, but cant find this. How can I achieve this ?

Regards,
Stephan

[DimitarParticipant]

Hello Stephan,

Unfortunately, this cannot be achieved. You would have to manually set the colour values again.

Best Regards,
Dimitar

jQWidgets team
http://www.jqwidgets.com/

[stephanParticipant]

Hi Dimitar,

I’d like to point out that this greatly reduces the usefulness of the theme editor, because it becomes one shot only. Yet a theme is such a complex thing that it evolves over time. I am now in this rather unfortunate position that I have begun creating a theme, but now can not really make any changes to the (incomplete) theme that I have.

Manual editing of a theme seems particularely difficult because it is hard for me to understand how the input fields of the theme builder match up with the CSS classes it generates. As far as I can see many of the inputs, like colors, get used in multiple CSS classes across a wide range of widget types.

Please do consider adding an input option for the theme builder where a generated theme might be pasted so that theme builder loads this as a starting point.

A question: is the theme builder included in the jQWidgets package ? I’m thinking along the lines of: if it is, and if this included theme builder runs locally, would it be possible, for me, to modify the selection of themes that it offers for reading from ? For instance by replacing one of them with my own ?

Regards,
Stephan

[DimitarParticipant]

Hi Stephan,

Unfortunately, the Theme Builder is an online feature only.

Best Regards,
Dimitar

jQWidgets team
http://www.jqwidgets.com/

[stephanParticipant]

Hi,

For us the abiliy to edit an already created theme is becoming more and more important, as we progress towards more extensive use of jQWidgets.

Would it be possible for you to extend the Theme-Builder with an import/read as discussed above feature any time soon ? One shot theme creation really is not what you want for your professional applications. There is always the need to fix problems or improve the styling.

As an alternative, if extending the Theme-Builder is too much work for the short to mid term, could you include in your sources package the files with the theme macros and the script that you use for creating a CSS file from the macros ? This would allow us to create and maintain a macro file and rebuild CSS when we change a macro.

Regards,
Stephan

[DimitarParticipant]

Hi Stephan,

The Theme Builder is an Online tool for building New Themes. It will not be available for download now and in the future. Import colors of a custom Theme is a nice suggestion and we will discuss it as possible add-in in 2014.

Best Regards,
Dimitar

jQWidgets team
http://www.jqwidgets.com/

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