On 4/16/07, Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1) TForm.Color property sicks stubbornly to clBtnFace, whatever you do.
TForm.Color is not implemented on Gtk or gtk2 interfaces. I once tryed
to implement it, but it´s quite a huge mess, and I couldn´t make it
work.
TForm.Color works at le
IIRC, it's because the "design choice" was to let the Window Manager
choose the color.
2007/4/16, Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Trying to convert to Lazarus Delphi projects, I stumbled in quite a
number of incompatibilities. Let's start with TForm.
1) TForm.Color property sicks stubbornly
On 4/16/07, Alexsander Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IIRC, it's because the "design choice" was to let the Window Manager
choose the color.
I don´t think so. The default colors (like clBtnFace) are already
reserved for the Window Manager. Setting to clGreen for example should
always make it g
On 4/16/07, Alexsander Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IIRC, it's because the "design choice" was to let the Window Manager
choose the color.
That would be a very 'bad design choice' then. Sure, get the default
color from the Window Manager, but always allow the user to override
those if neede
On 4/16/07, Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1) TForm.Color property sicks stubbornly to clBtnFace, whatever you do.
Setting a different Color triggers a repaint, but the form is painted
with the default color. What is weird is that if you put a component
such as a Panel on the form and
2) Delphi Form has a Bitmap property which allows to set a background
image on the form, while Lazarus does not.
What version is it?
I vaguely remember seeing this on a very recent version of Delphi
(probably Turbo Delphi Explorer), but in Delphi7 there isn't any such
property...
Cheers,
Flávi
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 4/16/07, Alexsander Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> IIRC, it's because the "design choice" was to let the Window Manager
>> choose the color.
>
> That would be a very 'bad design choice' then. Sure, get the default
> color from the Window Manager, but always allow
On 4/16/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That it doesn't work for you doesn't mean that it is a bad choice. It
was choosen this way, since setting the color would destroy normal
theming, so the bitmap background of forms would become invisible.
Then why give use the choice of a Co
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 4/16/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> That it doesn't work for you doesn't mean that it is a bad choice. It
>> was choosen this way, since setting the color would destroy normal
>> theming, so the bitmap background of forms would become invisible.
>>
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:58:30 +0200
"Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Forcing all GTK applications to always use the theming colors is *not*
> always the developers desire.
In this case the developer has the option to use an application specific
appname.gtkrc file to override the s
On 4/17/07, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Forcing all GTK applications to always use the theming colors is *not*
> always the developers desire.
Forcing ppl to not use their theme either!
Our issue came into play when we tested under both Linux and Windows.
We moved away from Del
On 4/17/07, Lord Satan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Forcing all GTK applications to always use the theming colors is *not*
> always the developers desire.
In this case the developer has the option to use an application specific
appname.gtkrc file to override the standard theme and use his own.
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:50:14 +0200
"Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/17/07, Lord Satan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Forcing all GTK applications to always use the theming colors is *not*
> > > always the developers desire.
> >
> > In this case the developer has the opti
Lord Satan ha scritto:
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:58:30 +0200
"Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Forcing all GTK applications to always use the theming colors is *not*
always the developers desire.
In this case the developer has the option to use an application
Flávio Etrusco ha scritto:
2) Delphi Form has a Bitmap property which allows to set a background
image on the form, while Lazarus does not.
What version is it?
I vaguely remember seeing this on a very recent version of Delphi
(probably Turbo Delphi Explorer), but in Delphi7 there isn't any suc
Mark, could you point us to how to fix this? (Which is something much
better to do rether then pointlessly arguing about this)
What exactly is theming support? How does one implement it? Are there
functions in Gtk to retrive the colors for the theme, and then you use
them and set the color for th
Giuliano,
I fully agree with you and couldn't say it better myself. This is our
company's feeling about commercial software as well. The same thing
could be said for my previous two companies I worked for. The clients
dictates what they like and we must supply - after all, they paid for
the so
On 4/17/07, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mark, could you point us to how to fix this? (Which is something much
better to do rether then pointlessly arguing about this)
What exactly is theming support? How does one implement it? Are there
functions in Gtk to retrive the
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho ha scritto:
Mark, could you point us to how to fix this? (Which is something much
better to do rether then pointlessly arguing about this)
What exactly is theming support? How does one implement it? Are there
functions in Gtk to retrive the colors for the theme, and t
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:09:11 +0200
Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lord Satan ha scritto:On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:58:30 +0200
> "Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Forcing all GTK applications to always use the theming colors is *not*
> always the developers desire.
>
Lord Satan ha scritto:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:09:11 +0200
Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lord Satan ha scritto:On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:58:30 +0200
"Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Forcing all GTK applications to always use the theming colors is *not*
always the develo
On 4/17/07, Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Back to business. I've got exactly the same problem, but for me, with
GTK1, changing the TEdit background color works just fine. Doesn't it
work for you?
Hey, progress!!! It didn't work 2 weeks ago. :-)
It's still not 100% though. At l
On 4/17/07, Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're right. If a feature isn't there, we do our best trying to provide
it. Then it's up to developers to decide if they want override user
theme or not. However, just to clarify my point of view, I've got a
couple of examples.
[snip]..
On 4/17/07, Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can change the background to a select few colors, but can't set it
> back to the default clWindow. See attached screenshot. The top edit
> changed color when I blanked the field, but as soon as I entered data,
> it should have changed to
Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto:
On 4/17/07, Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Back to business. I've got exactly the same problem, but for me, with
GTK1, changing the TEdit background color works just fine. Doesn't it
work for you?
Hey, progress!!! It didn't work 2 weeks ago. :-)
It
Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto:
[...]
PS 'Lord Satan':
As per your rules that we may not override themes, how would you
envision I notify my users what is required fields in a data entry
screen at Form Show (see my previous thread for a longer explanation).
An then notify them what is invalid or mi
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Well again, our porting of the Delphi/Kylix application took a turn
> for the worse. I can send a few screenshots to show what it looks
> like under Linux (not even close to what it should look like). Under
> Windows it seems to be okay (for the most part).
Putting som
Flávio Etrusco wrote:
2) Delphi Form has a Bitmap property which allows to set a background
image on the form, while Lazarus does not.
What version is it?
I vaguely remember seeing this on a very recent version of Delphi
(probably Turbo Delphi Explorer), but in Delphi7 there isn't any such
pro
Lee Jenkins ha scritto:
Flávio Etrusco wrote:
2) Delphi Form has a Bitmap property which allows to set a background
image on the form, while Lazarus does not.
What version is it?
I vaguely remember seeing this on a very recent version of Delphi
(probably Turbo Delphi Explorer), but in Delphi7
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