Theme help!!!!

[stanger89]

I've been inspired, I'm trying to redo the main menu, but right now I've run into a bit of a snag. I've got an item that I'm trying to put a couple of text widgets in, and the problem is that the text widgets seem to be getting "themed", but I can't figure out where from.

Why does the subpannel not fill the Item widget?

[stanger89]

Alright, I suppose some ascii art to illustrate what I want.

I'm trying to build an item widget like this:

-------------------------------------------
| Text goes here                          |
|-----------------------------------------|
|Picture| More text here                  |
|-----------------------------------------|
|                                         |
-------------------------------------------

Problem is anything inside the Item widget (except shapes) won't go all the way to the left.

[Opus4]

w/o looking at the actual code... how is the themed Item defined? You are adding a full-width panel to every item that the theme applies to, but the item itself may not have a defined width.

Edit -- Oh, I see. Check the Item's insets.

- Andy

[Narflex]

You should be able to use the UI Component view and then find the text widget in there and then right-click on it to get an option to view the Themed widget for it. This was one of the debugging features I added.

[stanger89]

Very cool, didn't know that...

OK, so how do I override it? It's pulling the theme from MainMenuTheme ItemTextTheme text widget. I tried putting a Text widget in my Item them, but even that get's themed by the MainMenuTheme.

[Opus4]

If you add a text widget to the item in your theme, then you will add a text widget to each item on the screen. If you want to theme the item's text, then you have to put a text widget under a theme widget.

- Andy

[stanger89]

OK, here's the Item code:

Item (Item Widget)
\if GetElement(MenuItems, LastIndex)
-\branches to navigate pages
-\GetElement(MenuItems, LastIndex)
--\Untitled (text widget)

No matter what I do, I can't move that text all the way to the left.

[Opus4]

Did you check the "Insets" widget property that I mentioned above? I'm guessing that the themed Item uses Insets, like the default STV does.

- Andy

[stanger89]

I feel like an idiot.