One nice thing in EWB1 was that you could switch skins very easily to
change the look of the site. I thought that was the same with EWB2, but
it seems to get rather stuck with whatever you have created the
components with. The form file contains things like the colours, and
changing them in the library doesn't then update them. Which is sort of
fine, but is there a way to tell the IDE to revert to defaults for a
component, and thus adopt the theme settings? What is the expected way
to do this?

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Matthew Jones

On 18/10/15 22:18, Matthew Jones wrote:
> One nice thing in EWB1 was that you could switch skins very easily to
> change the look of the site. I thought that was the same with EWB2, but
> it seems to get rather stuck with whatever you have created the
> components with. The form file contains things like the colours, and
> changing them in the library doesn't then update them. Which is sort of
> fine, but is there a way to tell the IDE to revert to defaults for a
> component, and thus adopt the theme settings? What is the expected way
> to do this?
>

Matthew, do you mean the control's interface defaults or the control's
properties as listed in the Object Inspector?

If you mean the interface then you can select the control in the visual
designer in the IDE and click the tool bar button above it.

If you mean the Object Inspector properties then I don't know of a way.
I assume that you mean specific properties only as resetting left/top,
etc. might be unwelcome.

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Rick

Rick wrote:

> If you mean the interface then you can select the control in the
> visual designer in the IDE and click the tool bar button above it.

That is indeed what I meant, and as usual Tim had the solution waiting.
Only thing I'd suggest is that these buttons should be on the menu
somewhere too, so they are discoverable. I didn't even see the
"Initialize" button before you said it was there, and then I went
looking.

Thank you!

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Matthew Jones