addStyleClass for ad-hoc styles? - rendering

Question

When writing a control, prior to it's rendering you can add css classes to it's html representation's root dom node:
FooLayout.prototype.init = function() {
this.addStyleClass('fooCssClass');
};
This will work assuming writeClasses is executed during rendering:
oRenderManager.writeClasses();
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There is another RenderManager function writeStyles which can add in-line styles to the html string buffer:
oRenderManager.addStyle("color", "green");
oRenderManager.writeStyles();
But there doesn't seem to be an analogous function to addStyleClass for adding these at the control level to be picked up during rendering.
Is there a way I can hook into writeStyles outside of the renderer?

Answer 1

I have to ask: What styling cannot be applied on control level with a class that can be done with a specific style attribute?
Anyway, the "solution" (which I do not like) would be to add a delegate to the class and do something on onAfterRendering:
oControl.addDelegate({
onAfterRendering: function() {
this.$().css("opacity", "0.5");
}.bind(oControl)
});
Here is an example: http://jsbin.com/seqemaqedo/1/edit?js,output
But as I said, I would advice against it because using a good name for a class uses less code and is much easier to read:
oControl.addStyleClass("semiTransparent");
Update:
After our discussion in the comments, here is an example of how to wrap a control that does not support setting width and height.
You still have to write CSS that references the inner control structure, but in this case it is very unlikely that it will change:
http://jsbin.com/lohocaqixi/3/edit?html,js,output