The following topics introduce the new and changed features of the ADF Skin Editor and other significant changes that are described in this guide, and provides pointers to additional information. This book is the new edition of the formerly titled Skin Editor User's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework.
The ADF Skin Editor 12c (12.1.2) includes the following new and changed features:
Design editor, this new editor appears when you extend from the Skyros or Fusion Simple families of ADF skin. It can be used to change the most commonly styled parts of applications that use ADF Faces components and also to replace the default images in the ADF skins provided by Oracle ADF. You can preview the changes you make in the sample pages that the editor provides or in a browser that you invoke from the editor. Access the design editor by clicking the Design tab. See Section 3.2, "Working with the ADF Skin Design Editor."
Selectors editor, now displays an interactive preview of the currently-selected component. Clicking the interactive parts of the preview navigates you to the pseudo-element where you configure properties to change the appearance of the component. See Section 3.3.2, "Interactive Preview in the Selectors Editor."
Extended Skins, this list now displays the list of extended skins hierarchically and also displays imported skins. See Section 3.5, "Navigating ADF Skins."
Images editor, now includes the Adjust Hue/Saturation/Brightness dialog that enables you to adjust the hue, saturation and brightness levels of the colors that your ADF skin uses. This editor only appears if your ADF skin extends from the Fusion Simple family of ADF skin. See Section 6.5, "Working with the Images Editor."
At-rules, can now be created and modified using the selectors editor. See Chapter 10, "Working with At-Rules."
Using Java Management Extensions (JMX), you can deploy ADF skins packaged in an ADF Library JAR to a Fusion web application without having to restart the application. See Section 11.5, "Applying an ADF Skin to a Running Web Application."
New ADF skins, such as skyros and fusionFx-v3, are described. See Section 12.4, "ADF Skins Provided by Oracle ADF."
The fusion and fusionFx-simple ADF skins are deprecated. See Section 12.4, "ADF Skins Provided by Oracle ADF."
For 12c (12.1.2), this guide has been updated in several ways. Following are the sections that have been added or changed.
Added section to describe how you can access reference information for ADF skin selectors and CSS properties from within the ADF Skin Editor. See Section 2.4, "Accessing Selector Information from Within the ADF Skin Editor."
Added section to elaborate on how the ADF skinning framework determines what style property to apply when it overrides the value of a global selector alias from an ADF skin that is extended or within a local ADF skin. See Section 8.4.3, "What You May Need to Know About Applying a Global Selector Alias."
Revised section to describe how you use an @agent rule to determine styles to apply to agents that are touch devices. See Section 10.2, "Creating an At-Rule."
Revised section to elaborate on how an application chooses an ADF skin to use if you do not specify values in the trinidad-config.xml or trinidad-skins.xml files. See Section 12.5.2, "What Happens When You Version ADF Skins."
Removed references to the previously-deprecated Blafplus family of ADF skin throughout the guide.