Text fields with rounded corners

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sun Oct 5 11:37:04 EDT 2014


On 05/10/14 18:29, stephen barncard wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> That is a fudge, with a text field overlaying a rectangle with rounded
>> edges.
>>
> What difference does it make? It's all an illusion anyway. Just asking.
>
>

Yes, of course a GUI is an illusion; however, I, for one, have been 
sustained by
that illusion ever since I bought a Mac LC 475 in 1993, and it is a fine 
illusion
that is significantly better than the green screen blind terminal 
illusion that
preceded it. I have no great urge to be disillusioned, having worked with a
computer that had no visual illusion at all (no VDU) just a card reader 
and a printer.

However much the GUI-WIMP thing is an illusion, illusory objects within 
it can be
easy to handle and difficult.

In Livecode a group is, almost always, a P.I.A. [No, I am not referring to
Pakistani International Airways], and a unitary object is always easier to
tweak and adjust when one needs to.

Better cut down on the "Just askings" as, in my case at least, they 
precipitate
a waterfall of words :)

Richmond.




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