Thursday, December 18, 2008

Getting the "skinny" on skinning Spry menus

Massimo Foti is ever tweaking code he runs across and is probably the biggest reason I ever got into Dreamweaver extensions in a big way. Lately it seems that some of his spare time has been turned on Spry. He recently announced in the Adobe Spry forum that he is releasing a set of skins for the Spry menu bar in Office 2003 styles: Silver, Green, and Blue.

I've thought a good bit recently that skinning Spry widgets would be quite useful, as nobody likes out of the box styles these days. I mean, imagine a Spry version of Themeroller!

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At January 23, 2009 6:10 AM , Blogger Tony - Prenatal Impressions - Orlando said...

Are you aware if there is a way to create 3 dependent list boxes with Spry similar to the one on the following page:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/data_region/DataSetMasterDetailSample.html

My goal is to ultimately have State/City/Schools datasets all in XML.

I am very new to spry and would like to utilize it to create my page.

Any assistance/guidance/direction would be appreciated

 
At January 23, 2009 10:47 AM , Blogger Danilo Celic said...

I'd imagine that you'd need to create a third dataset similar to how the second dataset is created in the example you link to, and then have the second list onchange invoke a similar call to the onchange on the first list.

I haven't, however, done this my self, so don't know how easy it would be to create. I'd suggest that you ask the question in the Spry forum as others may have run across this particular issue already.

 
At February 17, 2009 8:20 AM , Blogger V1 said...

It wouldn't be that hard to implement such feature, as the only thing that theme roller does is add background images and change font colors..

But it would be a great idea :)

 

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