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Style Presets

 

  

To define your application skin efficiently, use Style Presets. Style Presets are reusable groups of settings that you define in the skin rule and then apply to multiple elements or components in the skin. When defining the presentation of elements in the skin, you can use combinations of Style Presets. An element can use one Style Preset for part of its presentation, and a different Style Preset or custom settings for the remainder of its presentation. The list of available Style Presets is filtered — only Style Presets containing applicable style elements are displayed. Custom settings apply only to a single element; they cannot be reused in other elements.

Using Style Presets in your skin rules maximizes consistency in application presentation and re-use. It also minimizes future maintenance. If you change a Style Preset, the change applies to all elements that reference the Style Preset.

Style Presets are referenced only in the Skin rule. You use Style Presets to define your application skin. To define an application skin, in the Skin rule:

  1. Specify the Overall Font.
  2. Define Style Presets.
  3. Apply Style Presets and/or custom settings to elements and components.
  4. Save the Skin rule.
  5. Click Run (Run) to preview the skin.

Defining the Overall Font

Defining a Style Preset

Applying Style Presets to Elements in the Skin

Removing a Style Preset from the Selection List

Default Style Presets (for new skin rules)

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