Problem with field borderwidth 2
Dar Scott
dsc at swcp.com
Fri Dec 31 18:11:11 EST 2004
On Dec 30, 2004, at 1:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Rev now supports native appearances for fields on XP when the field's
> default values are left in place (borderWidth set to 2). So what your
> screen show at <http://www.sanke.org/RevTestPage/> is showing is XP's
> rendering of the field border.
>
> You'll see a similar thing on OS X: while the appearance differs from
> XP, when a field border is set to the default value of 2 OS routines
> are used to render the control instead of the engine's.
>
> I think this should be overridable. Standard and Rectangle style
> buttons also take on native appearances, but you can override this by
> specifying a backgroundColor.
>
> Perhaps we need a Bugzilla request so that if the borderColor is set
> the OS no longer draws the control and it uses the engine's internal
> routines.
>
> Please post the bug number after you log it so we can vote for that
> enhancement.
>
> In the meantime a workaround is to set the style of the field to
> "shadow" instead of "rectangle" or "scrolling", and then to prevent
> the shadow from drawing set its shadowwidth to 0 (zero). Shadow-style
> fields are always drawn by the engine, so you should get what you're
> after with those.
Where did you get all this info?
There is nothing about special native rendering in the dictionary under
borderWidth or threeD.
Ah, I found it under backgroundColor.
The idea of using backgroundColor to switch between OS rendering and
internal rendering is pretty weird. I would never have thought to
check the dictionary for backgroundColor.
I don't like idiomatic choices. Choices should be explicit. A
property could be used to switch between different rendering methods in
a control object.
Dar
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