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Figure 4-18.
The new theme applied on your form
How It Works
As mentioned in Recipe 4-1, themes are collections of templates, and they are a good way to manage
your user interfaces. A theme includes a template for every single type of user interface element in APEX.
Themes allow you to easily skin your application and to switch between them.
You can also easily create new variations of a theme by making a duplicate copy of it in APEX and
individually modifying the templates contained inside.
Note
There are web sites that sell or provide APEX themes. ApexSkins is one such site; go to
4-5. Modifying Form Control Templates
Problem
Your application runs well. One day, someone in the office deletes some important data by mistake.
High-level politics kick in, and your not-so-IT-savvy bosses decide it's a great idea to have all buttons in
your form prompt for an additional pop-up confirmation before doing anything. Given that some of
your existing forms have numerous buttons, and it wouldn't be very fun changing your forms one button
at a time, you look for a faster alternative.
