An Thi-Nguyen Le <anle_at_uiuc.edu> writes:
> Version: current CVS
>
> There's already _at_0 for the shadow color and @1 for the highlight color
> when drawing vector lines for buttons. Is it a good idea to add _at_2 and @3
> or something like that for the foreground and background color?
Buttons don't have foreground and background colors.
Only "Solid colorname", which I guess you could take to be
the background. I suppose you could use the HilightFore color
as the foreground.
As I remember, we've had a few comments about not being able to
"lift the pen off the paper" while drawing vectors, and supporting
a background color would do that.
Still, if you really want to go all out with buttons, using pixmaps
gives a lot of control.
> Also, for pixmaps in general, would it be possible to have colors in the
> xpm named 'Highlight' and 'Shadow' which would get cast to the highlight
> and shadow colors (and maybe 'Foreground' or 'Background')? ctwm does this,
> and I think maybe CDE but it's been a while.
Since pixmaps support the color "None", you get a "Background" by using
"None".
I've seen the references to symbolic colors in XPMs but never seen
them used.
Other users have asked about supporting other image formats, besides
xpm. Supporting other formats would confound this feature. For my
own use, I'd look at further extensions as bloat. Thats not to say,
I'm absolutely against them. I'm just trying to make the point that
there should be a clear benefit to adding more features.
Both of these ideas are interesting. Instead of asking if these
features are a good idea, point out the benefits.
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Received on Thu May 17 2001 - 12:11:50 BST