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Hi all,
Im playing around with themes and have succesfully implemented the feature for pages.

However I want to be able to set the theme in the MasterPage rather than on all content pages.

I can not seem to get the Page_PreInit to fire for a master page.
And the <@ Master> does not have a theme attribute

It does not seem likely after all the effort microsoft has gone to to establish master pages and themes that you would need to set this on every content page.

Any Suggestions?


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I am not sure whether you can set a theme for a Master page or not.

However, if the purpose of this is to apply the theme to the entire site, there is good news. Try this in your Web.Config:

<system.web>
<pages theme="MySuperCoolTheme" />
<system.web>

I know it's not as useful as applying it to the master page, but at least it's better than applying it to each individual page.

You can even set the theme for the entire server by changing the Machine.Config.

Cheers,

Imar
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Thank Imar,
I was hoping to provide a different theme for different users, in fact for different HTTP_HOST's.
I guess it's every page then.

This is quite strange as there is a 'EnableThemes' attribute to the MasterPage.
This must be evaluated before or on the Page_PreInit, would you agree.

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They say, best men are molded out of faults,
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For being a little bad.
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I am not sure about that. If you want to programmatically change the theme, you have to change the theme in the Page_PreInit event of the page. However, code in the master page seems to fire after the code in the page that is based on the master, so I wouldn't be surprised if you can still disable the theme in a later event in the master page.

I can't really test it here right now; for some reason my themes do not even show up on the page, whether I set the theme in the page or in the Wen config. Something must be broken.... ;-(


Imar
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Thanks again Imar.
Even without setting in Master, Im quite impressed with this enhancement.

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They say, best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
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Right, I figured out what went wrong with my themes. It looks like the installation of Crystal Reports screwed up my themes. Here's what's inside my skin file for the SmokeAndGlass theme: This doesn't look right, does it?
I think that somehow at installation time, the CR installation messed up the files. In the mean time I restored the original *.skin files, and things are working again now.

Cheers,

Imar
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I've applied the themes in the preinit event but I am facing a problem... I am having 7 buttons for 7 different themes but the event is handled by a single event handler. I am assigning the theme to a session and when the page is postbacked, I am applying the theme, but when I am clicking on the button for the second time, then only the theme is applied... any solutions??? Thanks in advance...

Thanks and Regards,

Senthil Kumar M.

What do you mean with: Can you show us your code?

Imar


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Button event contains

Protected Sub ApplyTheme(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles btnViolet.Click, btnIbrow.Click, btnBlue.Click, btnGreen.Click, btnyellow.Click, btnOrange.Click, btnRed.Click

Dim b As Button
        b = CType(sender, Button)

        Select Case (b.CommandName)
            Case "Violet"
                Session("Theme") = "Violet"
            Case "Ibrow"
                Session("Theme") = "Ibrow"
            Case "Blue"
                Session("Theme") = "Blue"
            Case "Green"
                Session("Theme") = "Green"
            Case "Yellow"
                Session("Theme") = "Yellow"
            Case "Orange"
                Session("Theme") = "Orange"
            Case "Red"
                Session("Theme") = "Red"
            Case Else
                Session("Theme") = "White"
        End Select
end sub

preinit event contains

Dim _theme As String = "White"

        If (Session("Theme") IsNot Nothing) Then
            _theme = Session("Theme").ToString()
            else
                _theme="White"
            End If
page.theme=_theme

if i am clicking the button for the second time then only the theme is applied...

Thanks and Regards,

Senthil Kumar M.

But what do you mean with: "Only" seems to imply there's something it doesn't do...

Imar


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