How to obtain theme properties? (gadgets.skins)

[Renegade]

Good day,

according to the docs (1.0.7, pg. 33), I can/should use gadgets.skins.getProperty() to obtain the primary design elements of the theme of the Ning in question; however, the gadgets object loaded in my Ning does not have a skins member.

The object itself exists, and I'm using gadgets.window.adjustHeight() and gadgets.io.* just fine, but gadget.skins is undefined. (It reports as undefined when I try to use it, and when I console.dir(gadgets) it's not being listed, while the others are.)

I am separately loading the Google JS API to load jQuery and SWFObject, but from skimming over it, that just seems to affect google.loader.*, not the gadgets.

Is gadgets.skins maybe just obsolete? Did I miss something? Is there a new/different way to obtain the theme properties? Am I missing a feature I'd have to require?

I did try searching the forums and Google, to no avail. Has anyone had this problem before? Does anyone know what's going on?

[Ernie H.]

Hi Renegade,

Do you have a code sample we can look at?

Thanks,
- Ernie

[Renegade]

Oh man...let my feeble code be seen by the pros? *hides*

The current in-dev XML is located at http://the436.com/ning_dev/canopy.xml, though I took any "real" calls to gadgets.skins out, since they were ending in errors anyway. There's only debugging stuff in google.setOnLoadCallback related to this.

I tried the forms
gadgets.skins.getProperty(FONT_COLOR);
gadgets.skins.getProperty("FONT_COLOR");
gadgets.skins.getProperty(gadgets.skins.Property.FONT_COLOR);
but each of them complains that gadgets.skins is undefined :/

To ensure it wasn't just a question of scope, I just placed the debug call before everything else, with the only result being that the app was stopped dead in its tracks.
If I triggered this somehow, I'm really curious how I managed to do that -_^

(The font color of the app is currently hardcoded to to #CCCCC (due to my failure to access the skin), so it could be hard to read on bright bg colors. Maybe change it in Firebug.)

[Ning Developer Admin]

Hi Renegade,

Make sure you include the following line in your XML code:
<Require feature="skins"/>

Thanks!
- Ernie

Renegade said:

Oh man...let my feeble code be seen by the pros? *hides*
The current in-dev XML is located at http://the436.com/ning_dev/canopy.xml, though I took any "real" calls to gadgets.skins out, since they were ending in errors anyway. There's only debugging stuff in google.setOnLoadCallback related to this. I tried the forms
gadgets.skins.getProperty(FONT_COLOR);
gadgets.skins.getProperty("FONT_COLOR");
gadgets.skins.getProperty(gadgets.skins.Property.FONT_COLOR);
but each of them complains that gadgets.skins is undefined :/

To ensure it wasn't just a question of scope, I just placed the debug call before everything else, with the only result being that the app was stopped dead in its tracks.
If I triggered this somehow, I'm really curious how I managed to do that -_^

(The font color of the app is currently hardcoded to to #CCCCC (due to my failure to access the skin), so it could be hard to read on bright bg colors. Maybe change it in Firebug.)

[Renegade]

That works! :D

Thank you so much, Ernie!