Dynamic Skinning

Dynamic Skinning

A widget can have more than one skin associated with it. Dynamic Skinning allows you to change the skin of a widget during program runtime.

Skins must still be created in Iris. It is not possible to create a skin from code, and it is not possible to change skin properties from code.

For example, the following code allows you to change the skin for successful and unsuccessful dial attempts for a button in a Phone Widget,:

function clickphone() {
    retvalue = phone.dial("555-2368");
    if (retvalue == -1) {
        frm1.btn1.skin = "errorskin";
    } else {
        frm1.btn1.skin = "successskin";
    }
}

In the above code snippet, if the dial attempt is a failure, the errorskin is applied on the button. If the dial attempt is a success, the successskin is applied.

Note: For Dynamic Skinning, you must ensure that the skin exists for the widget in the IDE before the code is executed.

The following table lists the widgets and platforms which support dynamic skinning:

Widget	Android/Android Tablet	iPhone/iPad	Mobile Web	SPA
Form	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
HBox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
VBox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Button	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Calendar	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
CheckBoxGroup	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
ComboBox	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Image	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Label	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Line	Yes	Yes	No	No
Link	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
ListBox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
RadioButtonGroup	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rich Text	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
TextArea	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
TextBox	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
ScrollBox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Signature	No	No	No	No
Video	No	No	Yes	Yes