[seam-dev] a modest seam-gen style upgrade

Thu Oct 9 02:45:59 EDT 2008

Haha, you may be wondering how I figured out Gavin's birthday. It's
amazing what grep will tell you ;)

-Dan

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, yes, I forgot to send the screenshots. Here's the eye candy.
>
> Disclaimer: The RichFaces colors don't always line up perfectly. It
> was a bit of a game to find the right color to assign to each element.
> Of course, it is simple enough to override the colors however you
> choose, this is just a starting point.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Gavin King <gavin at hibernate.org> wrote:
>> Got a screenshot?
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> You may have noticed by now that seam-gen has gotten a modest style
>>> upgrade in the trunk. This upgrade is based on "style mods" I have
>>> been maintaining while working on the source code for Seam in Action
>>> (I had to dress up the screenshots for the show). Understand that this
>>> is just a first step in making seam-gen applications look more
>>> presentable, but nonetheless, and important first step.
>>>
>>> Below is a list of the enhancements (perhaps something worth blogging about):
>>>
>>> 1. Added a favicon of the Seam logo
>>>  - personally, I think this is the coolest and simplest enhancement
>>>  - by the way, we should consider use this favicon for
>>> seamframework.org because I made it transparent
>>> 2. Icons for each level of error message (warn, error, info)
>>> 3. Stripped the border and background from global messages and fixed
>>> the indenting to accommodate the icons
>>>  - the messages were still using the style from the original orange
>>> theme seam-gen projects had
>>> 4. Used a RichFaces XCSS resource so that the theme matches the
>>> currently selected RichFaces theme
>>>  - I also applied some of the RichFaces gradients to form controls to
>>> make the forms look better (w/ very little CSS)
>>>
>>> The only downside of the new theme is that the Visual Editor in
>>> JBossTools doesn't understand the XCSS file (which resides in the
>>> stylesheets directory). Therefore, I left behind the old theme.css and
>>> put an instruction in template.xhtml about switching to the static
>>> theme.css for previews. It would be great if the Visual Editor could
>>> interpret the XCSS file. This opens up so much flexibility for
>>> extending the RichFaces theme.
>>>
>>> The commit also came with some other goodies:
>>>
>>> 1. seam-gen WAR projects now have a consolidated compile target
>>> 2. two new targets reexplode and redeploy, which do a clean unexplode
>>> explode or clean undeploy deploy, respectively
>>> 3. restart now detects if you have deployed an exploded or packaged
>>> archive and restarts it appropriately (before it bombed if you had a
>>> packaged archive deployed)
>>> 4. EAR projects now compile groovy scripts on the classpath (deploying
>>> raw .groovy files requires more research)
>>> 5. Added a "head" named insertion in the template.xhtml so that you
>>> can add additional markup in <head> on a per-page basis
>>> 6. Global messages now reside in template.xhtml with a Facelets
>>> parameter you can use to turn them off on a per-page basis
>>> 7. Changed src/action to src/hot and src/model to src/main
>>> 8. Added the view folder to the classpath for tests so that page
>>> actions defined in *.page.xml are invoked during testing (previously
>>> the tests only read the global pages.xml file)
>>> 9. Added a javadoc task to the build
>>> 10. The default username is admin and the password is blank.
>>> Developers never got to see the failure login scenario out of the box
>>> because we let any credentials through (obviously, with the new
>>> security stuff, we don't even need the authenticator component, but
>>> that is a next step perhaps)
>>>
>>> All in all, what these upgrades should do is make your demos of Seam
>>> look just a touch prettier and give you a few more wrenches for
>>> development. There are still plenty of improvements that could be
>>> made.
>>>
>>> -Dan
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dan Allen
>>> Software consultant | Author of Seam in Action
>>>
>>> http://mojavelinux.com
>>> http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gavin King
>> gavin.king at gmail.com
>> http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin
>> http://hibernate.org
>> http://seamframework.org
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Dan Allen
> Software consultant | Author of Seam in Action
>
> http://mojavelinux.com
> http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction
>
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-- 
Dan Allen
Software consultant | Author of Seam in Action

http://mojavelinux.com
http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction

NOTE: While I make a strong effort to keep up with my email on a daily
basis, personal or other work matters can sometimes keep me away
from my email. If you contact me, but don't hear back for more than a week,
it is very likely that I am excessively backlogged or the message was
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