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From: fgreco@donald.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView 2.0 bug (?) -- foreground and background colors
Message-ID: <9010051457.AA18912@islanders.>
Date: 5 Oct 90 14:57:40 GMT
Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root)
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> |> 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.
> 

	Invariably when developing an app with XView/devGUIDE, my (human)
	clients will ask me to change the background color of the button
	or a panel list so that its different from the panel itself
	(and of course, every "resource" must be configurable).
	So I'd like to put my strong vote in to offer this flexibility (different
	panel item colors) in the OPEN LOOK spec.

	And, its a given that they also want different fonts for different
	panel items (e.g., 12 point lucida for buttons, 14 point lucidasanstypewriter
	for panel lists, 24 point times roman for panel messages).  It is
	really awkward to have separate panels for each...real awkward.
	I'd like to have a mono-spaced font for the panel list (i.e., to align
	columns...etc) and proportionally-spaced font for other things for
	readability.


	Frank G.


	BTW, how about TEXTSW's that scroll horizontally?