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The three minutes routine to change any SAP-blue theme to the new theme that is required for you next demo!
If there should be any questions, comments, etc on this weblog, please post it here, so that it is easier to handle the traffic. We are also interested to see if anyone does actually use the tool.

Hiya,
I saw this blog posted a while back and have only now had a chance to use it - very cool work there Brian and Steffan!
The only thing is I'm having what looks like the same problem as Maximilian!
We're on 620 sp45.
Everything installed fine, I tweaked the mime version code for 620 (me->ifur_d2_system~css_version) and the left hand side of the screen, the editor itself, looks and works fine - but the preview screen doesn't work, the BSP is displayed with no theme at all.
I opened the BSP in a new page with default theme and set the theme manually with paramters and this doesn't work either.
i.e.
http://<host>:<port>/sap/bc/bsp/sap/it05/entrypoint.htm?sap-themeRoot=%2fsap%2fpublic%2fbc%2fur%2fdesign2002%2fthemes%2falfs1000202FFE4C43B2D1B7D674EDAA520565656
But if I try with an SAP standard theme everything works fine and the new theme is picked up correctly
i.e.
http://<host>:<port>/sap/bc/bsp/sap/it05/entrypoint.htm?sap-themeRoot=%2fsap%2fpublic%2fbc%2fur%2fdesign2002%2fthemes%2f~sap_standard
I've checked the URL encoding (using program BSP_DECODE_URL) and with the alfs theme this looks fine.
In the source code the stylesheets are referenced using the correct themeRoot i.e.
<link id="urstyle" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/sap/public/bc/ur/design2002/themes/alfs1000202FFE4C43B2D1B7D674EDAA520565656/ur/ur_ie6.css">
When I set a break point in the ALFS HTTP handler this is not picked up.
BUT the one really puzzling thing about all this is that whilst I've been trying to fix this and work out what is going wrong I've made small changes to the ALFS class, i.e. to change the default BSP application used in the editor, and sometimes after generating the class code, refereshing both browser and system caches, everything worked fine - even the debugging of the HTTP handler - for some generated themes - and then stopped working again!
Now I know how this reads - and I've worked with enough users in my time to know you must be thinking - well she must have changed something! But I really can't work out what it could have been.
I've been round and round trying to reproduce what ever it was to get this working.
I've tried all the following in various combinations:
- restarting ICM
- removing ALFS HTTP handler from ICF service
- starting with a completely new copy of the class
- adding alert statements to the ALFS editor page to track themeRoot values
- changing the code relating to me->ifur_d2_systemcss_version and me->ifur_d2_systemur_version so that there is a version number (tried 'urversion=DAT<date>' and plain 'DAT<date>'), changed the code so there is no version number used at all.
- even (don't laugh!) put the ALFS HTTP handler on node SAP/BS/BSP just to make sure the external debugger was still working (it was). At this point I could see each time it was called, and since each call did not have the alfs string in it, all the internal class processing was correctly skipped.
All of the above in combination with cache refreshing on both server and brower side and logging on/off.... and still feel no closer to resolving this.
From what I understand, the ALFS HTTP handler is called everytime a MIME or theme object is requested from the theme root - as this is the only time that a request would pass via SAP/PUBLIC/BC/UR. And I understand that if the requested object is already cached, there will be no request passing via this node, so the ALFS HTTP handler won't be called - but think that there must be some important point relating to caching that I must have missed ...
So that's my first question... help!
Also, Brian, what you have mentioned before, this patch you have to take a theme, patch it with ALFS then import it into the theme editor - this sounds like exactly what we need to do ... I couldn't see any weblogs relating to this - so could you point me in the right direction??
We have no portal so I'll be trying the standalong theme editor plug in for Eclipse.
Thanks in advance,
Cathy

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Thanks to both Rodney_McKay and jasper for their replys and ideas
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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
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                 "EEE, MMM d, ''yy",
                 "h:mm a",
                 "H:mm:ss:SSS",
                 "K:mm a,z",
                 "yyyy.MMMMM.dd GGG hh:mm aaa"
        currentPattern = patternExamples[0];
        //Set up the UI for selecting a pattern.
        JLabel patternLabel1 = new JLabel("Enter the pattern string or");
        JLabel patternLabel2 = new JLabel("select one from the list:");
        patternList = new JComboBox(patternExamples){
        public void updateUI(){
        System.out.println("UPDATE UI");
        super.updateUI();
        changeUIAddEditorListener();
        changeUIAddEditorListener();
        patternList.setEditable(true);
        patternList.addActionListener(this);
        //Create the UI for displaying result.
        JLabel resultLabel = new JLabel("Current Date/Time",
                                        JLabel.LEADING); //== LEFT
        result = new JLabel(" ");
        result.setForeground(Color.black);
        result.setBorder(BorderFactory.createCompoundBorder(
             BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.black),
             BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(5,5,5,5)
        //Lay out everything.
        JPanel patternPanel = new JPanel();
        patternPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(patternPanel,
                               BoxLayout.PAGE_AXIS));
        patternPanel.add(patternLabel1);
        patternPanel.add(patternLabel2);
        patternList.setAlignmentX(Component.LEFT_ALIGNMENT);
        patternPanel.add(patternList);
        JPanel resultPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(0, 1));
        resultPanel.add(resultLabel);
        resultPanel.add(result);
        patternPanel.setAlignmentX(Component.LEFT_ALIGNMENT);
        resultPanel.setAlignmentX(Component.LEFT_ALIGNMENT);
        add(patternPanel);
        add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(0, 10)));
        add(resultPanel);
        setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(10,10,10,10));
        reformat();
    } //constructor
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
         System.out.println("Action Event");
        JComboBox cb = (JComboBox)e.getSource();
        String newSelection = (String)cb.getSelectedItem();
        currentPattern = newSelection;
        reformat();
    /** Formats and displays today's date. */
    public void reformat() {
         try {
        Date today = new Date();
        SimpleDateFormat formatter =
           new SimpleDateFormat(currentPattern);
            String dateString = formatter.format(today);
            result.setForeground(Color.black);
            result.setText(dateString);
        }catch (IllegalArgumentException iae) {
        System.out.println("Ilegal argument Exception");
        catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Argument Exception");
     * Create the GUI and show it. For thread safety,
     * this method should be invoked from the
     * event-dispatching thread.
    private static void createAndShowGUI() {
        //Create and set up the window.
        final JFrame frame = new JFrame("ComboBoxDemo2");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        //Create and set up the content pane.
        JComponent newContentPane = new ComboBoxDemo2();
        newContentPane.setOpaque(true); //content panes must be opaque
        frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        //frame.setContentPane(newContentPane,BorderLayout.CENTER);
        JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
        JMenu theme = new JMenu("Theme");
        ButtonGroup bttnGroup = new ButtonGroup();
        JCheckBoxMenuItem metal = new JCheckBoxMenuItem("Metal");
        bttnGroup.add(metal);
        metal.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
         public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
          try{
          UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getCrossPlatformLookAndFeelClassName());
          SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(frame);
          }catch(Exception a){a.printStackTrace();}
          theme.add(metal);
        JCheckBoxMenuItem system = new JCheckBoxMenuItem("System");
        bttnGroup.add(system);
        system.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
         public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
          try{
          UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
          SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(frame);
          }catch(Exception a){a.printStackTrace();}
        theme.add(system);
        menuBar.add(theme);
        frame.setJMenuBar(menuBar);
        JToolBar jtb = new JToolBar();
        jtb.add(newContentPane);
        frame.add(jtb, BorderLayout.PAGE_START);
        //Display the window.
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Schedule a job for the event-dispatching thread:
        //creating and showing this application's GUI.
        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                createAndShowGUI();
   public void changeUIAddEditorListener() {
   patternList.getEditor().getEditorComponent().addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter()
   public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e)
   System.out.println(" Key pressed is "+e.getKeyCode());
}

Portlet look and feel

Is it possible to modify the portleet look and feel with JSR-168 the same as we
can do with page flow portlet. I don't want to display the Maximize/Minimize as
well as the portlet title.
Is it something that can be configured in the portlet.xml file ? otherwise can
i modify the portal framework files ?
Thanks

I have a portlet developed using JSF in sun creator studio and imported to the Weblogic workshop after running the portlet preparer tool. However the Maximize/Minimize button shows up but does not work on this portal.
Here is the portal.xml file
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<portlet-app xmlns='http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd'
xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xsi:schemaLocation='http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/portlet/portlet-app_1_0.xsd' version='1.0'>
<portlet>
<description>
Created By Java Studio Creator
</description>
<portlet-name>
components
</portlet-name>
<display-name>
components Portlet
</display-name>
<portlet-class>
com.sun.faces.portlet.FacesPortlet
</portlet-class>
<init-param>
<name>com.sun.faces.portlet.INIT_VIEW</name>
<value>/home.jsp</value>
</init-param>
<expiration-cache>0</expiration-cache>
<supports>
<mime-type>text/html</mime-type>
<portlet-mode>VIEW</portlet-mode>
</supports>
<supported-locale>en</supported-locale>
<portlet-info>
 <title>components</title>
 <short-title>components</short-title>
 <keywords>Creator</keywords>
</portlet-info>
</portlet>
</portlet-app>
How do I get the Maximize/Minimize button behaviour?
Also, how can I take out Maximize/Minimize buttons in JSR-168 portlets?.

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