In my previous post, I explained how to create nice gradients using Degrafa’s CSSSkin. Once again, CSSSkin is one of the very powerful, yet overlooked function of the Degrafa framework (look at this, or that for those who would still doubt it). But it has in my opinion a limitation: it works almost only for containers (Canvas, Panel, List, etc). But as it stands by default in the latest version (Beta 3.1), it doesn’t work for buttons (Button, ButtonBar and the like). When it comes to the define CSS tags like upSkin, downSkin, selectedOverSkin, etc, there’s no choice but to use tailor made classes extending GraphicBorderSkin like in this example. But actually, there’s a rather easy way to use CSSSkin defined in a CSS file only, by simply extending CSSSkin.

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