Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2014, 62(2), 315-320 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201462020315

Universal Style Sheet Language Environment Modification for the Business Use

Jiří Brázdil, Jiří ©»astný
Department of Informatics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

This paper deals with the description of USSL - Universal Style Sheet Language environment. USSL style sheet language is platform-independent and its primary focus is the declarative notation of the appearance of GUI libraries used by imperative programming languages. The implementation of the software support for wxWidgets library is made, because this library has no support for the separate declarative notation of the appearance via style sheet language. The separation of the appearance enables us to reuse and standardize the appearance notation and the independent development of the appearance. In this way it is possible to achieve consistent appearance of applications of specific set or even all of company software products. However, the first proposal of the USSL has several disadvantages which restrict the possibilities for practical use in business or other environment. These disadvantages are: the lack of @import rule for importing other style sheets, USSL only supports basic set of selectors compared with selectors of other style sheet languages for desktop environment such as Qt QSS and GTK+ GtkCssProvider, the lack of styling of the cursors, it is impossible to put down URL. The placement of widgets and its borders are not solved either. This paper contains suggestions for solving these issues.

Keywords: CSS, declarative approach, styles, wxWidgets

Prepublished online: May 23, 2014; Published: February 1, 2014  Show citation

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Brázdil, J., & ©»astný, J. (2014). Universal Style Sheet Language Environment Modification for the Business Use. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 62(2), 315-320. doi: 10.11118/actaun201462020315
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