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    #31
    Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

    What would be interesting to see are the actual CSS modifications required to do something like this... and an account of how much time was actually spent working on it.

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      #32
      Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

      That looks great, Peter.

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        #33
        Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

        Stylish as ever Pete.

        Originally posted by peteconway View Post
        If you think about the design you want and make your templates with the inline CSS modifications required you can do it now.
        Here are some examples - works great with Browser or Mobile.
        [ATTACH=CONFIG]44781[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]44782[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]44783[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]44784[/ATTACH]
        Glen Schild



        My Blog

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          #34
          Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

          Originally posted by Michael1954 View Post
          There is a great deal of debate on this message board about making programs modern and stylish. Alpha actual makes it easy to do. However, the problem is that easy is not quick. Just having great stylesheets does not solve the whole problem. Layout and program flow is possibly the largest problem.

          We are trying to build a framework that will solve many of these problems.

          My question is
          • what parts of Alpha take the most time to style?
            What parts prove the most difficult?


          Here is where we have got so far.

          Moodboard
          http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/r.../moodboard.a5w
          Examples
          http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/r...tyle/form1.a5w
          http://smg.datadrivensystems.co.uk/r...tyle/grid1.a5w
          Ideas that need a little work.
          Input control sub Themes
          https://dochub.com/michaelcornford/E...swgnf9enrutmej
          Form styles Three column
          https://dochub.com/michaelcornford/K...h4kkdp7dn3uf6h
          Form single column right help
          https://dochub.com/michaelcornford/6...47v2fhmy5p6cdk
          Form 2 Column
          https://dochub.com/michaelcornford/z...twpg9uubf9oa8p
          Form 2 Column with footer
          https://dochub.com/michaelcornford/g...okacmood00e71m


          Here is a fun component.

          https://cornford-gmail.tinytake.com/...MwMV83MjkyNTQ0

          Michael, Moodboard and all the others links don't seem to be working for me. Is it just me?
          Alan

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            #35
            Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

            Peter are you able to elaborate on the effort needed to accomplish what showed?
            Alan

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              #36
              Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

              Originally posted by Michael1954 View Post
              ...
              • what parts of Alpha take the most time to style?
                What parts prove the most difficult?

              Styling the ButtonList control has proven to be the most difficult, for me. The AA Button Builder does not provide access to all the formatting options available to a buttonList, nor does the AA JavaScript buttonList object provide all of the event embed points that it should. For example, what you see inside the box of the attached picture is an AA buttonList, but I think one would have a hard time reproducing it using just the AA builder for a ButtonList.


              SampleAAButtonListControl.png

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                #37
                Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

                Alpha does provide complete tooling for much of what it does. A big part of Alpha provides only the base scaffolding and it's up to the user to build out what they need. Alpha doesn't get in the way of doing this but the user does need to become well versed in CSS, HTML, and Javascript.

                There are great examples of what can be achieved in styling within this thread... but what's never revealed is the extensive effort required to do so... and who is actually doing it.

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                  #38
                  Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

                  While it took some time to figure - it's neither hard or extensive effort, nor is it anyone else - in coming weeks it reval the basics.. i'm just under the pump with new apps right now that exploit the ViewBox, not that takes a lot of effort - as can be seen in the AA documentation where the word Here.. get a good run instead of the actual help.
                  Pete
                  Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
                  Albert Einstein, (attributed)
                  US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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                    #39
                    Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

                    RIP Michael...

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                      #40
                      Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

                      Originally posted by lvasic View Post
                      RIP Michael...
                      Yes RIP, a real shocker to hear this.
                      Glen Schild



                      My Blog

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                        #41
                        Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

                        How did you find out Lee?
                        Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
                        Albert Einstein, (attributed)
                        US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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                          #42
                          Re: Styling Alpha using Alpha

                          Originally posted by lvasic View Post
                          RIP Michael...
                          OMG! That is terrible, sad news.
                          Alpha Anywhere v12.4.6.5.2 Build 8867-5691 IIS v10.0 on Windows Server 2019 Std in Hyper-V

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