From appearance manager thread

[Old Dog]

Brought this here for better visiblity.


Please realize that I do not know the internal structure of GBPVR so some of these ideas may simply be too expensive. In fact my first suggestion may be such a case.

1. An Alias directive. The syntax may be something like <Alias name="MyFavoriteFont" value="Tahoma"/>. Whenever the SkinHelper encounters text it does not reconize it would check to see if it were an Alias for something more understandable (recursively?).
   
   
2. Make it possible to define an element in terms of another similar element, for example:
   • <TextStyle name="NormalText" color="Black" typeFace="Tahoma" size="12" style="regular"/>
     
   • <TextStyle name="SelectedText" textStyle="NormalText" size="14" style="bold"/>
     
     
   • Or combining items 1 & 2, <TextStyle name="NormalText" color="Black" typeFace="MyFavoriteFont" size="12" style="regular"/>...
     
3. Make it possible to include xml files in xml files. For example, it would be benificial to define identical popups in one file and simply include them when needed.
   

Thanks,
-David