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From: derek@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl (derek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Colours in Turbo Vision
Summary: TListBox in TWindow - how to set the colour?
Keywords: Color TP6.0 Turbo Vision Dialog
Message-ID: <714@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl>
Date: 17 Apr 91 10:00:43 GMT
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When I insert a TListBox or derivative into a TWindow or derivative (actually
TScroller) the only colour I can get is bright white on red. According to
the Tvision additional document on disk, this means that it is not mapping
correctly. I have had a lot of trouble understanding this colour mapping. The
manual is just not very clear at all.

Does this really mean that I am not supposed to be using TListBox derivatives
in a Twindow, only in a TDialog? I can presumably use a non-modal TDialog,
but that means I have to have the scrollbars on the inner box instead of
what I consider the more natural outer window frame. (I don't need any
buttons or input boxes. I'll specify the listbox as bounds-1 of the dialog
box in X and Y, and grow as gfGrowHiX OR gfGrowHiY.)

So do I override the window getpalette method to map to dialog colours, or
do I use a non-modal dialog box? If I use a Twindow, am I going to have 
any problems returning selected information to the desktop?

Best Regards, Derek Carr
DEREK@DTS.INE.PHILIPS.NL           Philips I&E TQV-5 Eindhoven, The Netherlands 
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