3D Field Bevel color wierdness.

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 4:53 PM -0400 8/14/2003, yoy wrote:
>I have a 3d field with 2 pixel border. When I go to the Color & Pattens
>inspector and assign the bottom bevel color to orange, it sets the top and
>left bevel to orange!?? But... my field has a vertical scrollbar and the top
>and bottom arrows and thumb are bevel colored correctly.
>
>I think it's a simple backwards bug. The Top Bevel button colorizes the
>bottom and right bevel and the Bottom Bevel button colorizes the top and
>left bevel. But they colorize the scrollbars correctly.


It isn't a bug (although the labeling isn't as clear as might be): 
the Top Bevel button sets the topColor property, and the Bottom Bevel 
button sets the bottomColor property. Buttons are outset (they 
visually "stick out" from the screen), so with the light source at 
the top left, the top and left sides are the ones that light is 
hitting. Fields are inset ("pushed in"), so the light coming from the 
top left affects the bottom and right sides.

There's a report on this somewhere in Bugzilla from someone who 
experienced a similar confusion.
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