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Hello,

Is it possible to create custom color aliases to use them like color="*****"?

Thanks in advance.

Sure, you can declare custom colors as constants:
Then you can use my_color in every place which accepts a numeric color or predefined color name.

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Matthias, thank you ! I like your library more and more.

i''ve tried this method but possibly did something wrong

in my theme file i have

<constantDef name="font_light_grey"><color>#9eb8bf</color></constantDef>

and

<fontDef name="helvetica_lt_lg" filename="HelveticaNeueLTStd-Lt.fnt" color="font_light_grey"/>

and got an exception

Time: 14:29:16
Category: theme loading
Title: Exception while loading theme

java.io.IOException: while parsing Theme XML: testenv://local:80/D:/Work/Dev/water-co ... s/main.xml
at de.matthiasmann.twl.theme.ThemeManager.parseThemeFile(ThemeManager.java:272)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.theme.ThemeManager.createThemeManager(ThemeManager.java:186)
at de.matthiasmann.twlthemeeditor.gui.PreviewWidget.loadTheme(PreviewWidget.java:350)
at de.matthiasmann.twlthemeeditor.gui.PreviewWidget.executeTestEnv(PreviewWidget.java:269)
at de.matthiasmann.twlthemeeditor.gui.PreviewWidget.paintWidget(PreviewWidget.java:224)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paint(Widget.java:2020)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.drawWidgetClip(Widget.java:2535)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.drawWidget(Widget.java:2508)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paintChildren(Widget.java:2073)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paint(Widget.java:2021)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.drawWidget(Widget.java:2511)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paintChildren(Widget.java:2073)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paint(Widget.java:2021)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.drawWidget(Widget.java:2511)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paintChildren(Widget.java:2073)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paint(Widget.java:2021)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.drawWidget(Widget.java:2511)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paintChildren(Widget.java:2073)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paint(Widget.java:2021)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.drawWidget(Widget.java:2511)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paintChildren(Widget.java:2073)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paint(Widget.java:2021)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.drawWidget(Widget.java:2511)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paintChildren(Widget.java:2073)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paint(Widget.java:2021)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.drawWidget(Widget.java:2511)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paintChildren(Widget.java:2073)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.paint(Widget.java:2021)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.Widget.drawWidget(Widget.java:2511)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.GUI.draw(GUI.java:644)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.GUI.update(GUI.java:564)
at de.matthiasmann.twlthemeeditor.Main.run(Main.java:246)
at de.matthiasmann.twlthemeeditor.Main.main(Main.java:122)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: unknown color name: font_light_grey
at de.matthiasmann.twl.renderer.lwjgl.LWJGLFont.createFontState(LWJGLFont.java:86)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.renderer.lwjgl.LWJGLFont.<init>(LWJGLFont.java:74)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.renderer.lwjgl.LWJGLRenderer.loadFont(LWJGLRenderer.java:365)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.theme.ThemeManager.parseFont(ThemeManager.java:382)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.theme.ThemeManager.parseThemeFile(ThemeManager.java:306)
at de.matthiasmann.twl.theme.ThemeManager.parseThemeFile(ThemeManager.java:267)
... 41 more

Sadly you have found a place where these custom color can't yet be used. I'm currently working on an update to the font rendering engine. With that update you will be able to use your custom colors also for fonts, but there is no scheduled release date for that yet.

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Thanks for the clarification. I will create workaround and wait for an update.

Can you try again? - the new version should now be able to handle that.

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Matthias, now it is working! Thanks!