Hi August, On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 00:20 -0500, August Sodora wrote: > I've noticed that many of the controls in the basic ide are not > rendered natively and want to correct that.
Oh - that is odd :-) by which you're talking about theming ? > It seems like the controls that are used as base controls (like the > things in svtools/inc/svtools/svtabbx.hxx) should be updated to use > something newer but I'm not so sure where to start. Ah - so; of course, the svtools versions are likely to be much more functional than the VCL versions, at least that is one thought. SvTabListBox -> SvTreeListBox -> SvLBox -> Control ... oooh - you're quite right, it is a new base control :-) > I'm not even sure what the proper base class for a dialog is. Is > there any reason that basctl uses these ui elements other than the > fact nobody has gotten around to looking in there for a while? Noel might know; I suspect that (at one stage) they were somehow more functional than the equivalent VCL versions - of course; if we do an API audit we might find that is no longer the case ;-) class SVT_DLLPUBLIC SvLBox :public Control ,public SvListView ,public DropTargetHelper ,public DragSourceHelper ,public ::vcl::IMnemonicEntryList ,public ::vcl::ISearchableStringList vs. class VCL_DLLPUBLIC ListBox : public Control would suggest some of the possible differences around D&D etc. though why VCL should not optionally have this in it's ListBox - I don't know. Assuming you want to brush it up to use native theming; the rendering APIs to use (in all their awful oddness ;-) are vcl/inc/vcl/outdev.hxx: // Request rendering of a particular control and/or part sal_Bool DrawNativeControl( ControlType nType, ControlPart nPart, const Rectangle& rControlRegion, ControlState nState, const ImplControlValue& aValue, ::rtl::OUString aCaption ); // Query the native control's actual drawing region (including adornment) sal_Bool GetNativeControlRegion( ControlType nType, ControlPart nPart, const Rectangle& rControlRegion, ControlState nState, const ImplControlValue& aValue, ::rtl::OUString aCaption, Rectangle &rNativeBoundingRegion, Rectangle &rNativeContentRegion ); Hopefully that helps ? :-) ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice