Skinning - Dynamic Shell UI

Question

Hi,
Though I could find lot of threads about skinning the dynamic shell UI, none of them have any concrete solution. Anyone who has done it earlier or have any idea please help answer the below 2 questions
1) Can I use the default template and still apply the skin to change the background color (i.e. thats the primary requirement as of now), tab color etc., ?
or
2) Should I create my own version of the template to apply skin?
As per Frank in The Dynamic Tabs UI Shell Template (UI Shell) theme change skinning is possible , but if I could get a little bit more detail on where/how that would be really great.
Appreciate your response. Thanks !
- SS

Answer 1

Hi,
see: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/web.1111/b31973/ap_config.htm#sthref406
if you set a web.xml context parametere for org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.DISABLE_CONTENT_COMPRESSION and set it to false then using Firebug in Firefox, the skin names applied to a component look as af_component_area (e.g af_inputText_labell) which you translate back to e.g. af|inputText::label
As Chris said, some components have style class names associated to allow instance specific skinning (which is that the style class name is added to the skin definition). To learn about which component has a style class applied, I suggest to download the Dynamic Tabshell source code and check the component you want to skin. The skin itself is best developed using the visual skin editor (stand alone for JDeveloper 11g R1 or embedded for JDeveloper 11g R2)
See: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2011/11-nov/o61adf-512006.html
Frank