System Background Pattern?

[Richard Gaskin]

Scott Rossi wrote:

> Has anyone figured out how to get the system background pattern to
> display in a toplevel stack?  I followed Scott Raney's instructions to
> set the backPixmap and backColor of the current card and stack to empty,
> but the card/stack still shows up white.
> 
> It seems this should be possible since the Control Browser window
> appears with the correct pattern, but cloning this stack results in a
> stack with a white background...

The Control Browser stack is opened as modeless.  Modeless works, as does
modal and palette, but not toplevel.   This is consistent with the Aqua HIG,
since a toplevel window is presumed to be the user's workspace, which always
has a white background (just like the good ol' pre-Sys7 days).

If you really need to do the Aqua motif in a document window, you could open
it as modeless, or grab a snippet of the pattern and use it as the
backgroundPattern of your stack.

But after spending some time re-reading the Aqua HIG recently, I'm
considering that white is the way to go for document windows.

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