Thanks Jiang, I've tried your suggestions. I tried using fluid to create a menubar of 2 item groups with different colors. Fluid does this: ItemGroup* o = new ItemGroup(...); o->color( somecolor); which doesn't work. The itemgroup color is the menubar color.
I lokked into menu_item, but it appears to be a fltk-1.x class. I'm learning fltk-2. I've been continuing to read and experiment with styles. I now know how to use syles in a class. The NamedStyle declaration and revert function definition need to be global, not a part of the class. The class then sets it's style with 'style( my_style) in the constructor. If I create a different style for each itemgroup, it works. Unfortunately, the style colors can be set, but not recovered from the style. The only other way I've come across to contoll/access itemgroup colors, is to copy the draw function from itemgroup. This approach allows the class to hold the colors so that the user could access/change the colors. I'm running Linux, and haven't tried either of these techniques on any other OS. Quite a learning experience. Thanks, Marty Jiang Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > Just another newbie question.... > I'm trying to create a menubar of itemgroups. I would like the itemgroups > and child items to have a separate color from the other itemgroups in the > menubar. This would allow different colored itemgroups in the menubar to be > 'color coded' acording to the subject type. I've subclassed ItemGroup and > Item, but can't seem to integrate the Style stuff into the classes. > > I've tried using Styles, according to the source code. I've tried using > Styles according to the previous posts on this list. I've tried copying > 'draw' code from the source files. Nothing seems to work. I can compile > without errors, but the desired colors don't appear in the subclassed > itemgroup or item. > > Can someone give me an esample of how to incorporate styles into a subclass? > > NamedStyle( ItemGroup::default_style); > seems like it's supposed to create a new style, as a copy from an existing > style. But how do I make the desired changes and incorporate it into my > CIGroup subclass of ItemGroup? > > Revert( Style *s); > appears to be the function for making changes to the new style. Do I create > a class function > CIGroup::revert() in my class? > > I've read the documentation, but am getting more confused as I go on. > > Please point me in the right direction. > > Thanks, > Marty > > there is a parameter in the menu_item class, and i think you can set the color through changing the last parameter. Of course, I prefer to use FLUID to make these stuffs. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list fltk@easysw.com http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk --------------------------------- Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list fltk@easysw.com http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
