About Themes

At their most basic level, themes affect the look and feel of the application. You can create your own themes or use one of the two system themes that are supplied.

Note: There are some differences in the way themes are handled in the WinStudio smart client and in the web clients. The web clients recognize theme settings related to the Explorer, foreground colors, background colors, fonts, tabbed layout and required field indicators. They do not recognize settings pertaining to the group boxes or notebook tabs.

You can change the look of these components:

  • Button
  • CheckBox
  • ComboBox
  • CriticalNumber
  • DataView
  • DatePicker
  • DropList
  • Edit
  • Grid
  • GridColumn
  • GroupBox
  • HyperLinkButton
  • ListBox
  • Notebook
  • RadioButton
  • Static
  • TreeControl
  • VerticalGrid
  • VerticalGridElement

What can be changed for each component is different, and you can see what can be changed in the Theme Editor. Attributes that can be changed include but are not limited to text and background color and font family, size and style.

In the Theme Editor, you can also determine the Explorer style, the group box style, the notebook style, and whether there is a required field indicator.

System Themes

The application ships with these themes:

  • Infor: This theme is the more current of the two themes. Notable aspects include just three menu choices in the menu bar and required fields that are identified with a red asterisk. Menus that were located in the menu bar in previous versions are now listed under the System menu.
  • Classic: This theme provides the look and feel of previous versions. More menu choices are available in the menu bar, and required fields have a yellow background.

You can edit these themes, but you cannot delete them.

Theme Editor

Use the Theme Editor to create new themes or edit existing ones. You can also copy an existing theme.