Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!ames!claris!drc
From: drc@claris.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Highlight "OK" buttons
Keywords: Dialogs
Message-ID: <5229@claris.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 88 16:38:06 GMT
References: <3316@homxc.UUCP> <16727@apple.Apple.COM> <27471@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: drc@claris.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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In article <27471@think.UUCP> ephraim@vidar.think.com.UUCP (ephraim vishniac) writes:
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>That's how you *draw* the highlighting, which is only a partial answer
>to the question of how you highlight a button.  The part that people
>often get wrong is *when* you highlight the button.  They tend to
>forget that the highlighting might need refreshment (refreshing?)
>(redrawing?) when the dialog gets an update event.
>
>It seems like a safe tactic would be to redraw the highlighting
>whenever you get any update event for the dialog, but I'm sure
>somebody will point out to me a reason that's a bad idea...
>

This is essentially the correct method (at least in my opinion).  The
method I use is to create a userItem that extends out from the default\
button by four pixels in all directions and attach a "draw me" proc to
it with SetDItem that does the FrameRoundRect.

Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!