That makes sense. Thanks, Peter.
> On Mar 11, 2016, at 2:39 AM, Peter TB Brett <peter.br...@livecode.com> wrote: > > On 11/03/2016 01:26, Roger Guay wrote: >> Sorry if I missed this in prior posts, but what happened to the Look >> and Feel option in the View menu? Isn’t this a serious omission? > > The "Look and Feel" options were removed from the menu bar, because it's > technically impossible to make them work the way that users would > naively expect them to work. > > Specifically, LiveCode 8 uses a "native" theme by default. This > requires platform-specific libraries to be available (for example, the > OS X button is actually *drawn* by OS X, not by LiveCode, when you use > the "native" theme). OS X theming APIs are not available on Linux, and > Windows theming APIs are not available on OS X, and so on. > > Enabling an OS X look and feel on Linux cannot result in the stack > looking the way it would if you were running it on OS X. > > You can still set the look and feel from the message box or script. > > Peter > > > > -- > Dr Peter Brett <peter.br...@livecode.com> > LiveCode Open Source Team > > LiveCode 2016 Conference: https://livecode.com/edinburgh-2016/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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