How could i Enhance Lotus Notes Dialog Boxes or Picklists to change the Background Colorsof one dialogBox on a page with out affecting the others?
For Lotus Notes dialogs and picklist there is nothing you can do - it is Windows application, so dialog windows inherit look&feel from operating system.
You can alter look of content in dialog boxes by making your own layouts, though.
I have removed xpages and css tatgs - as mentioned in comment, it has nothing to do with XPages design. If that was your case, simply define CSS class and your own CSS. Look at DOM hierarchy with Firebug or developer tools of modern browsers.
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I am new to SAPUI5 and I am having trouble creating a layout which should be responsive, I tried responsive layout, responsive grid layout but with no luck, also to mention below every label a textbox should be there.
Are you aware of the example pages from SAP?
https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/test-resources/sap/ui/layout/demokit/ResponsiveGridLayout.html
Klick on "show source" to see how they did it.
I'm sure I am missing something straightforward and simple, but in xpages, using a tabbed panel, who do I get all the tabs to print when the users prints the page?
You can use a Dojo tab container (part of the extension library) instead of the standard tabbed panel. With the Dojo tab container the content of all tabs is loaded at once (in opposite to the standard tabbed panel, as Tim said), so you could do some CSS magic to make all tabs visible when printing.
Tim recommends building a separate XPage for printing, and I second that. Organize the content of the tabs in custom controls, create a new XPage for example with the suffix "_print" and include the custom controls in it without the tabbed panel. Then create a button, link or whatever in the first XPage which simple opens an XPage with the same name plus "_print" in a new window.
In the "_print" Xpage you can use a "window.print" after the page loads to open the print dialog automatically.
This technique has the advantage that you can style the printing exactly as needed. You can even control which content to include when printing by using the visible/rendered property and compute to render controls only when the current page name does not include "_print".
I am quite new in JavaFX and I have a question about the design. I am creating my main menu in FXML using Scene Builder. I have various menu buttons and each of these have a sub-menu. These sub-menu options will open new windows. Is it possible to declare these submenu choices so they do not dissapear after I click on them? If so, can I declare it in my fxml or I have to do it programatically?
Also, is it possible to detach it from the menu button? I would like to have my menu choices around 1 cm away from the menu button itself.
Thank you
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If you want more flexibility in positioning a popup menu after a button click as well as fine control over when the menu shows and hides, try using a Button + a ContextMenu rather than a MenuButton.
The relevant methods are:
contextMenu.show(anchorNode, side, dx, dy)
contextMenu.hide()
There is sample code for triggering a context menu on a button press button in the ContextMenu javadoc.
You might also need to monitor the context menu's showingProperty and in a listener show the menu again if the JavaFX system has decided to try and hide it after some user action and you still want the menu visible.
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OK It sounds logical, yet since Im not really good in JavaFX yet, your Idea is quite challenging.
It's not that hard to implement, but from your subsequent comments it sounds like it's probably not the user interface you want for your users anyway (which makes sense to me because the interface you describe in your question seems a little strange).
I thought If it would be easier to have a static xml that have various menu choices, lets say aligned to the right and then whenever I click one of the choices, a new FXML would be loaded in the middle of the screen holding buttons for a submenu?
That seems logical. Sounds like a JavaFX version of a traditional web page layout with a navigation menu on the side controlling a content pane in the center.
A Java only version of that is: How to have menus in java desktop application. You could adapt that to a FXML based version without too much difficulty.
You might also be interested in Managing Multiple Screens in JavaFX.
Also, any tutorial for beginners would be greatly appreciated. These Oracle ones dont make too much sense for me
If you are beginning JavaFX, I recommend using just the Java API portions of JavaFX until you become familiar with them, and then use FXML only after you are comfortable with the Java API.
Personally, I think the Oracle JavaFX Tutorials are excellent. The difficulty for beginners is that the tutorials are also part reference material, which complicates portions of them (especially the deployment related pieces).
If you prefer a different tutorial style see:
Makery JavaFX tutorial (good for beginners)
zenjava tutorials (more advanced)
I want to change the position of the application menu in an Eclipse RCP application. This is what my UI designer wants it to look like:
Note that you have the menubar on the left and a tab-bar on the right, thus saving a line of vertical space. I want the menu to still be the application menu, and work with all the other Eclipse extensions for controlling it. I just want it in a different place. Can this be done in Eclipse/SWT?
Not by default, certainly not in Eclipse 3.x or even Eclipse 4.2 using the Workbench. RCP applications fill in the main menu bar using their subclass of org.eclipse.ui.application.ActionBarAdvisor, filling in org.eclipse.jface.action.MenuManagers. All of the default extensions in 3.x are also based on interacting with MenuManagers. The SWT Menu used in the menu bar doesn't allow that kind of overlay, AFAIK.
In Eclipse 4 the menus are described in a model, and then a variety of renderers (defaults provided by org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.WorkbenchRendererFactory) are responsible for creating the SWT widgets. In theory it's possible to replace some or most of those renderers (in effect implementing your own menu system using SWT composites or buttons or canveses) but that sounds like a lot of work.
I want to design own custom backstage view tab that has desing like standard tab FileNew.
How can I (and can I at all) use such tab elements like scrollable button set or large borderless button with text at bottom of one.
There are elements in the BackStage Tabs which are built-in and not available form the programming side. For example, all the individual controls on the Print Backstage Tab cannot be re-used by a developer. I'm afraid that we have the same problem with the File New Backstage. The previews are built-in. You can verify this if you look into the WordControls.xlsx file delivered with the Office 2010 Control-IDs download: There are no controls for the TabNew except for "GroupNewFormTemplates", "GroupNew2003Dialog" and "GroupNewFormPreview".
You can only re-use controls which are defined in the Ribbon Scheme, as Combobox, Edit Control, Button, and so on.
So to display your templates, you must use these default controls, or built something completely different.