Look and Feel in LC8

[Roger Guay]

I didn’t even know it was a property! I never used it as a delivery mechanism, but rather as an early or preliminary detection/indication in developing for other platforms. Thanks for the plugin in, Richard.

Cheers,

Roger


> On Mar 11, 2016, at 7:49 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> I have to admit that as fun as the lookAndFeel property was for mocking up a NeXT-style menu palette once, in all the years I've been using LC I've never used that global property in anything I ship to end-users. Most folks just want their app to look like everything else on their system, and providing an alien-looking appearance just confuses them.
> 
> That said, it is sometimes fun to remember what ancient OSes looked like (the emulated options are all for things no longer in common use: Windows 95, Mac Classic, and Motif), so I just made this plugin -- public domain for anyone who wants it:
> 
> <http://fourthworld.net/lc/4W_LookandFeel.livecode <http://fourthworld.net/lc/4W_LookandFeel.livecode>>