Skinning

Theme

contains all information requires to change entire visual styling of all controls

Any control can accept a theme

• all offspring will inherit the same theme
• if value not in theme, will search up to root to find (will use default if not found)

Theme Options Types:

• integer constant: spacing, alignment, etc
• Color: single color (fonts, icons)
• Texture: single image (handles, icons)
• Font: used to draw text
• StyleBob: defines how to draw a panel in varying sizes

Each option is associated with a name of the option and the name of the Control

Custom Controls

use the _draw() method to implement custom drawing

• can check .rect_size to ensure everything remains in bounds
• can check has_focus() to see if control is in focus
• minimum size: allows a control to have an intrinsic smallest size