Changed Configuration paths with ConfigurationImpl for UIX CSS

Question

Hi,
I want to change the default stylesheets for UIX components. therefore I read chapter 7 Customization and then chapter 10 Configuration of the help to JDeveloper (v. 9.0.2). I found out, that if I want to use my style sheets, I have to write a XSS file, what I did, and then include that to my application - somehow. I will not change the blaff.xss file, therefore I chose the way to instatiate a new ConfigurationImpl, change the path for the styles directory - as mentioned in chap. 10 - and registered it and... nothing. then I wanted to do following :
RenderingContext.setConfiguration(config); but that is not working, because the method setConfiguration() is not available.
my source snips:
*.xss:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<styleSheetDocument xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/uix/style">
<import href="blaf.xss"/>
<styleSheet>
<style selector=".OraTableCellText">
<property name="color">#222222</property>
<property name="vertical-align">top</property>
</style>
</styleSheet>
</styleSheetDocument>
my source snip for ConfigurationImpl:
ConfigurationImpl config = new ConfigurationImpl("myConfig");
config.putRelativeURI(Configuration.STYLES_DIRECTORY, "/public_html/styles/"); //it starts at the workingdirectory of the project, or?
config.register();
renderingcontext.setConfiguration(config);
thx a lot,
Brit

Answer 1

You have to wait to call RenderingContext.setConfiguration() when you're about to render.
If you're using UIX XML, what you'll do is subclass UIXPageBroker and override
  protected Configuration getConfiguration(
    BajaContext context,
    Page page)then tell UIX to use your page broker instead of UIXPageBroker.
If you're using UIX JSPs, wrap your page in a <uix:renderingContext> tag with the "id"
attribute set, then:
<uix:renderingContext id="rc">
  <% rc.setConfiguration("myConfig"); %>
  ... rest of UIX content for your page in here ...
</uix:renderingContext>Note that you can set the configuration by name, rather than needing to refer
to the object directly.
9.0.3 will make this process simpler. Stay tuned.