Re: FVWM: Flat buttons on raised title

From: JOHN MARTINSON <tea.rex_at_home.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:15:52 -0700

JOHN MARTINSON wrote:

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> Neil Bird wrote:
>
>> Tim Phipps wrote:
>> > It can't be done. The titlebar doesn't go under the buttons, it
>> stops
>> > where they start. A hacky way to get the look would be to remove
>> the
>> > relief pixels between the raised titlebar and raised buttons (a
>> bit like
>> > HiddenHandles for BorderStyle). I don't know what you would call
>> this
>> > either.
>>
>> I suspected as much; it also shows up when one tries to have a
>> pixmap
>> tile on the titlebar. Buttons will inherit this property as a
>> background,
>> but restart the tiling each time, making most XPMs look most dodgy.
>> Ideally, ButtonStyle UseTitleStyle would cause the titlebar to draw
>> its
>> background (3D/pixmap/etc.) across the button area, so that tiled
>> pixmaps
>> are only tiled 'once'.
>>
>> Then, though, you have the problem of coping with title text
>> placement,
>> and possibly mixtures of buttons that do usetitletyle and those that
>> don't
>> (although you could insist that all such buttons would supply their
>> own
>> b/g which would overwrite the title stuff underneath them, which I
>> think
>> is always the case anyway).
>>
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