[Pythoncard-users] Default/changeable skins/thems/colours

My latest design dilemma is how to differentiate between enterable and 
display only information in my application.

When I am fetching data into my application from a database some values 
will be directly enterable by the user but others are 'reference' values 
  that shouldn't be changed at that time or in that place.

I'm currently putting the enterable data in TextField widgets and my 
unchangeable data in StaticText widgets. But, to differentiate the 
non-updateable StaticText widgets from my actual boilerplate I would 
like them to be different colours.

So I started to specify all of my 'dynamic' StaticText widget with 
'foregroundColor':'blue' and that works a treat. I've also played around 
with them as TextField widgets and either will do. But this lead me to 
another idea.

I would like to specify my colours as default values (say in a module 
level variable in the .py file) which are then picked up in the resource 
file. But I couldn't find a way to do it.

In the first instance I just want to be able to specify a variable 
*somewhere* and reference it in my resource file, e.g.

{ ... 'foregroundColor': MYFGCOLOUR ... }

But I don't think there is any way to do this in the current framework - 
or is there? Am I stuck with strings in my resource file that I have to 
do a search and replace for when my fickle nature dictates a colour change?

If there is a way to do this, or we can build one into the framework we 
could then provide a user configurable colour scheme, or expand it to a 
full blown skinning system. Which is probably overkill but I thought I 
would mention it anyway.

Regards,
Andy
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