Themes versus Manual changes to controls appearance properties

Apologetically don’t know themes in WiseJ, just yet. I am reviewing the docs and references now.

I noticed inconsistency in various forms that I’ve created recently

(please excuse terminology form, user control, page, I forget )

and initially it appears that the “DEFAULT” themes WiseJ.NET 3.1.5 has

these global options.

It appears that I can GLOBALLY for my SOLUTION ( ? Project maybe )

set a theme in some referenced JSON file.

My question is, does one’s manually fiddling with the various appearance properties in various controls

simply override theme settings ?

And more importantly

Have I horribly messed up the ability to globally apply a unifying theme by manually

attempting to EX: set all the Header Fonts to XYZ and Color ABC on my Own ?

Thank You !

Questions

Hello,

I’m not really sure I fully understand the question here, but I can tell you the following:

All controls in Wisej have a respective “Appearance Key”, the Wisej.Web.Button control’s AppearanceKey in this instance is “button” in the theme.
You can set your own custom Appearance, for example, if you would like to have a panel with a specific Color, you can do that without overriding the default one, just make sure that you assign the correct AppearanceKey for it in the code.
There are theme mixins, which are files that can override a specific control appearance and are not bound to a specific control; meaning a control appearance would be overridden across ALL the themes.
You don’t have to fiddle with the JSON part of the theme, that can be done with the Theme Builder, however, you’ll have to manually create the Mixins using the very same JSON structure
You can preview your application in the Theme Builder and the changes would be applied in real-time, thus making it easier for you to customize.

Hope this does answer some parts of your questions, if anything falls short, please do let me know and I’ll be happy to help!