Dynamic loading of styles from libraries and theme folders

Hey CK,

Thanks for this, I was thinking of rather a function to override through template.php; also "Superfish type support..." was available since v1! and "desktop\mobile..." is doable through your CSS files (http://w3schools.com/css/css_mediatypes.asp)

This is a very useful feature.
To make more clear how ckng's implementation works here it is in 6 steps:

1. Get the dev version http://drupal.org/node/1103384 (I tested it with Last updated: March 28, 2011)

2. Get the patch from #6 and apply it

3. Get the superfish.inc_.txt from #1 , put it in sites/all/libraries/superfish and rename it to superfish.inc

4. Create a folder in your theme css folder called superfish

5. Create a file called superfish.inc inside that folder

6. Add the following code remembering to change your drupal's theme name and your superfish themes name

<?php
$path = drupal_get_path('theme', 'YOUR_DRUPAL_THEME_NAME');
$info = array(
  // Theme superfish styles.
  'styles' => array(
    'YOUR_SUPERFISH_THEME_NAME' => t('YOUR_SUPERFISH_THEME_NAME'),
  ),
  'data' => array(
    'your_superfish_theme_name' => array(
      'file' => $path . '/css/superfish/YOUR_SUPERFISH_THEME_NAME.css',
    ),
  ),
);

FURTHER IMPLEMENTATION.

My suggestion for adapting the patch from #6 is:

Dismiss the file from step 3 (sites/all/libraries/superfish/superfish.inc)
In the module's code to leave intact the other default styles (#options in the module's form).
The you are able to update the superfish library easily

My time is limited right now but I may come back for a patch.

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Ni hao,

This is already added, in a different way though, it'll be available within a few days with the new version.

re: #10. Thanks Mehr...

The requested featured added as of v1.9-beta3 :)

First off - Thank you for the work y'all!

This is not so much a question as it is a comment.

As I am working hard to convert a site to Drupal and therefore on themeing a couple of SF menus exactly as they were on the site (and being a noob with Drupal and CSS), I could not help but wonder about the efficiency of Drupal's approach to CSS.
SF is being styled from at least 3 or four SF specific files in my case (using the Mayo theme) and maybe another 2 from the Drupal side. I find that rather confusing and cannot imagine that it is very effective...

However, Mehrpadin, you provided a way (maybe inadvertently), to inject my own CSS file into all of the pages , which I could not find a good way to do otherwise, as the some SF menu appears on EVERY page, therefore the CSS that the SF style dropdown uses appears on every page and it gets optimized into the monster css as well when you do optimize the site. See for the method description in Additional styles.
(I know that there is also a specific field in the block definition for a css file and that may have worked as well, but I felt that this method was "higher" in the cascade...)

In any case thanks people, you've got one fan here.

Gábor

Gabor,
Take a look at these:
http://drupal.org/node/171205#stylesheets
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--common.inc/function/drupal_ad...
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--common.inc/function/drupal_ad...

CK Ng,
It's not harsh at all, I was just busy and I still am as a matter of fact, well I know this is very needed but when I started v1.9 development I searched the API and elsewhere for a standard way and it seems like Drupal does not have any as of yet, therefore I decided to do the rest of the things until I find something, I know I can add a hook or something like that but what I expect is a solution for all the modules and for all the blocks, something like "Import\Export" for blocks settings, like a file that the end-user uploads and gets all or some of the blocks configured according to and blabla.

Apologies for missing this; cannot recall the exact reason, but my approach is quite similar to yours anyway; will close this, feel free to reopen if necessary.