DBuilder- sets "bottom" to 0,0,0?

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Mon Nov 3 18:48:59 EST 2003


> On Nov 3, 2003, at 4:00 PM, Alex Rice wrote:
>
> > This is one is weird. Can someone confirm if you are seeing this?
> > Sometimes the distribution builder will set the the bottomColor of the
> > mainstack to black. It does this when the bottomColor is clear/empty
> > according to the mainstack's property inspector.
> >
> > The result is the standalone (apparently) has a bottomColor of black,
> > giving the appearance that controls have black edges in some places.
> > It does not happen to the substacks.
> >
> > I can work around it by setting the bottomColor to grey But if the
> > DBuilder is doing the wrong thing, then I want to bugzilla it. It's
> > just as likely I could be going crazy. :-0
>
> Does the black outline appear around things like scrollbars?  If so
> then I have seen this.  It seems if I do a build on Mac OS X for
> windows that this happens.
>
Yep, it's something to do with the default colors picked up from the system.
The bottom and shadow colors seem to end up black. What you need to do is
set these in your standalone stack and leave all other colors empty and
things should look fine. It seems the default is 172,172,172 for both.

Cheers

Monte



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