[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #7921: Control Look lost in child view
- From: "Pete" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:11:50 -0000
#7921: Control Look lost in child view
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Reporter: Pete | Owner: axeld
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Kits/Interface Kit | Version: R1/alpha3
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by Pete):
Replying to [comment:6 axeld]:
> The description wasn't really correct. The button is drawn just fine,
only that it has no visible background. This is because BControl actually
inherits the background color from its parent.
Unfortunately this isn't quite correct either. A button in a ''child
view'' (of the window's own inaccessible view) uses the background colour
of that child view, but a button added to the window itself uses
B_PANEL_BACKGROUND_COLOR. (Without be_control_look they all use
B_PANEL_BACKGROUND_COLOR.)
It may have sounded like a neat addition to derive from the view, but I
think it doesn't work in a lot of situations. In BeOS, my app looks good
(to me anyway(:-)) with grey buttons in white panels.
>
> Since any good UI should just use the defaults (ie.
B_PANEL_BACKGROUND_COLOR) as background, it usually doesn't make a
difference.
Should it? I think an app should have the freedom to set its own
appropriate colour scheme. I just discovered the capabilities of the
Appearance preference, and also see that a 'set_ui_color()' has been
added, but these settings are all global. In fact I'm very happy with the
defaults for the general look, but an app may well have special needs: a
red 'Panic' button, say. And I'd say it's very common to want buttons to
stand out a bit from the background. There should be some application-
specific, even individual control specific, way of setting such things.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7921#comment:7>
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