[haiku-development] Re: UI Colors
- From: PulkoMandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 13:53:52 +0200
> All of them work, as in changing a color in Appearance updates the
> corresponding UI color. The problem is that not many controls make the
> ui_color() calls to change them. My question was (and still is) should I
> tweak the Draw() calls on controls in the Interface Kit to use more of these
> system colors or is there something else that should be done.
>
Some of them have to be used, but whenver possible, the control itself
should compute a color from another one. For example the "shadow" and
"shine" should be computed from the main color, ensuring a nice look and
feel. The current implementation is already doing it for some colors but it
can be tweaked a little more to give better results.
>
> I'm not completely sure what the live updates implementation should look
> like, but I remember that was one thing that was my plan _way_ back when I
> actually hacked on the app_server. The main problem is that broadcasting a
> message via the roster would be a cleaner approach, but that doesn't handle
> window tab colors and text. You *could* put together a message to the
> app_server to update those colors and broadcast the message via the roster,
> but that seems kinda messy. Any ideas?
>
>
If you want to do everything realtime, you'll also have to handle changing
decorators (for now it's done via the setdecor command. This will also do
things on the app_server side, so the same message could likely be reused ?
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Adrien Destugues / PulkoMandy
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