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From: tomj@snowking.Eng.Sun.COM (Tom Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView 2.0 bug (?) -- foreground and background colors
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.123231@snowking.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 90 19:32:31 GMT
References: <27508@bellcore.bellcore.com>
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In article <27508@bellcore.bellcore.com>,
quasar@krazykat.ctt.bellcore.com (Laurence R. Brothers) writes:
|> As far as I can tell, XView panels ignore the
Window.Color.Background
|> resource described in the XView man page. They also ignore the
|> -Wb and -g command line options.

Actually, XView PANEL windows are enforcing the OPEN LOOK 3D color
model
that says that control areas have the same color as the window borders
(resize handles, header, footer, menus, scrollbars, buttons, sliders,
etc).
You can change the color of other windows though... try: "textedit -bg
blue"
and you'll see that the textsw changes, but not the control objects.

|> Setting the background color of the base frame and
FRAME_INHERIT_COLORS
|> using an Xv_singlecolor value has similar nonexistent effect.

Panels simply ignore this... this is either a blessing (save you from
doing
something that will break OPEN LOOK compliance) or a bug considering on
your views of GUIs, however I think that this type of "help" on the
part
of the toolkit provide for more consistent applications and
environments.

|> The only way I can find to establish a panel color is to install a
colormap
|> segment for the application (via FRAME_INHERIT_COLORS) or for a
specific
|> panel. Unfortunately, this has the (bug) side-effect of mangling any
|> menus which may pop up for the panel.
|> 
|> All the above methods work fine for foreground colors.
|> 
|> Any suggestions? 
|> 
|> And another thing -- isn't it stupid not to be able to make the
background
|> color of a panel item different from the background color of the
panel?

We've been looking at this issue trying to get clarification from our 
OPEN LOOK experts... when we get the OK to allow this.. we'll fix it. 
Personally, I think that changing the background on a button (for
example)
destroys the consistent model... what you really want to do is change
the
foreground (outlines) of the button.

--Tom Jacobs			tomj@Eng.sun.com
  Sun Microsystems, Inc.	..!sun!tomj