On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:07:40 +0200 Benoît Minisini <gam...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Le 15/07/2014 00:52, B Bruen a écrit : ... > > 4) Some controls, e.g. DirChooser, don't set the background color > > according to the Background property. It seems to set the background > > color of the bar at the top of the chooser. Is there any reason for > > this? > > Yes, DirChooser is a compound control, so if I do nothing, the > background color is not taken by the inner controls that uses the system > TextBackground color (for example). > > I have to fix the controls case by case (i.e. decide which part of the > compound control should take the global background color). > > Regards, > > -- > Benoît Minisini > In this specific case, but probably influenced by our local needs, I think that the background of a compound control should be the "bulkiest area" of the control. But then again, a design rule could be : the area that the user's eye is/should be naturally drawn towards in the majority of uses. But, whatever. Since the majority of controls that we use here are very stable, I will probably take the line of creating our own custom versions. (Just another fight with SVN conflicts... :-( ) . regards Bruce -- B Bruen <bbr...@paddys-hill.net> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
