Oh, I'm on win7 64 bit. If you're on 95, the behavior would differ. It would try to set to appearance manager (most likely) then shift to windows 95. Wish I had more os's around here to experiment with.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can't test on 7.0.1 stable, but on rc4 it has an affect. in rc4 from the > menu, it does appear to work for me, setting back to the native appearance > manager look. > > I looked at this though: > The "Appearance Manager" option can be used only on Windows XP, Mac OS and > OS X systems. If you set the lookAndFeel to "Appearance Manager" on a Unix > system, it is reset to "Motif". Similarly, tf you set the lookAndFeel to > "Appearance Manager" on a pre-Windows XP system, it is reset to "Wondows > 95". > > It is still behaving as if the engine doesn't think you're on windows. > Since you can set it, and it is then "reset", somewhere in there it must be > checking the platform and failing. At this point, since you checked the > platform from the msg box, I have NO idea why it might be doing that. So > color me stumped. > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Bernard Devlin <bdrun...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The suggestion about a system proxy was a good one! >> >> That proxy was disabled on a system-wide basis on Windows; the values for >> the proxy were still in the boxes (but grayed-out). It appears all the >> browsers were ignoring these values, as the Internet Options said to not >> use a proxy. Livecode seemed to get that value still. After setting that >> to empty on a system-wide basis, then saving revPreferences, the proxy >> value is now empty in LC across restarts. >> >> Alas the lookAndFeel is still not working. I took your suggestion >> seriously, and did a restart. But still no change on this front. >> >> If I put the platform, it is "Win32". If I change the lookAndFeel through >> the menu, then the lookAndFeel reports "Windows 95". But this does not >> persist across restarts. You may be right, that the lookAndFeel is not >> saved with revPreferences. But then the conundrum is why this would look >> like "Motif" by default, whereas on LC 6.7 and earlier it correctly stays >> as "Windows 95" >> >> Incidentally, do you find that clicking the "native theme" on the View >> menu >> has any effect, i.e if you choose "Motif", then after that choose "Native >> Theme", does it display the appropriate appearance for your platform? >> When >> I try this on 6.7 and 7.0.1, it changes nothing. >> >> Bernard >> >> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Reading up on some stuff. You might check to make sure that windows >> itself >> > doesn't have a stuck proxy setting (not likely, since you'd notice it >> > elsewhere, but worth a check) because liburl will use the windows >> setting >> > of it isn't set specifically with code. At least it's something to >> > eliminate. Might also (if you didn't) confirm that "the platform" does >> > indeed return win32 to eliminate that also. I haven't yet found where >> the >> > "lookandfeel" is stored if at all, doesn't look like it is so far, >> hence my >> > re-asking about the platform. I looked at what the menu selection does, >> and >> > it appears that all it does is "set the lookandfeel to ..whatever" but >> > there could be a setprop somewhere that I haven't found yet. >> > >> > Worst case (I know its a pain) setup a plugin that sets the lookandfeel >> to >> > "appearance manager" as well as setting the proxy to empty. >> > >> > Another silly thought, but.. this is windows. Have you restarted >> lately? >> > About out of ideas, but i'll keep poking around and maybe get lucky. >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
