AW: How to change the backgroundcolor of a combo Box button?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Richard and Eric,
thank you for your thoughts and links, I will dig into those guidelines. The
reason I was looking for this option is, that I am thinking about offering
two "skins" of my app, where I have some standard fields, some list fields
and a combo box. In the standard skin the fields should have the standard
appearence with black on white. Now I wanted to offer a switch - especially
for visually handicapped people - for a inverse display of the fields, with
white text on grey bg. There are some people, who can better read the text
with this inverse contrast. And now my combo Box is the only one, which
doesn't follow this switch. Probably I will have to follow Erics advice, to
make my own combo Box.
Thanks
Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Richmond Mathewson
> Gesendet: Montag, 3. November 2008 20:37
> An: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Betreff: AW: How to change the backgroundcolor of a combo Box button?
> 
> Frankly, the red drop-down menu of the Combo-Box looked foul!
> 
> I did try this out on a Mac (I work with Macintosh and Ubuntu Linux).
> 
> However, I would never use a fancified drop-down menu like that as it
> would only serve to confuse and/or turn-off end-users:
> 
> http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html
> 
> and, if you really want to wade through some aspects of user-interface
> design in Runtime Revolution you can download my MSc thesis on,largely,
> that subject, and its practical implementation at:
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RRRThesis/    (under FILES)
> 
> I know that Apple have a set of 'Human Interface Guidelines', which
> they seem quite good at breaking.
> 
> I would suppose that Microsoft go in for the same type of thing.
> 
> I would also suppose that the reason why one cannot implement a
> fancy-coloured Combo BOx as per your search is because the good folk
> at RR Central realised that as it ran counter to almost all useability
> considerations it was hardly worth bothering about. Mind you, I don't
> know,so why don't you ask them directly.
> 
> sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
> 
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