B4J Tutorials

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When creating custom components, you will deal with javascript. You component will come up with its own methods to execute and events that you can trap.

This tutorial deals with getting...

 

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In one of my MashPlugIns components, I was asked if the components were theme-able. I have never really explored this in detail as some were just easy to theme using the css files...

 

[EDIT: This thread started as my approach to delegating complex components creation, including events.
@alwaysbusy then proposed a better system, that he needs us to say if we want it...

 

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For this tutorial you will need
MashPlugIns
Pen & Paper

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