Luc Bors Weblog

In my current project I encountered a usability issue. The users where unable to see where the cursor was located. It was flickering, but on a page with ,multiple input components it was very difficult to locate the field where the cursor was located. I decided to help them out and that proofed to be both very simple and in the end very helpful. I used skinning to give the active field a colored background. First I defined a skin in my trinidad-config.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?> <skins xmlns="http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/skin"> <skin> <id>custom.desktop</id> <family>custom</family> <extends>fusion.desktop</extends> <render-kit-id>org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.desktop</render-kit-id> <style-sheet-name>skin/custom.css</style-sheet-name> </skin> </skins> Next I made sure that the application uses the skin by defining it in the...