[BLACKBOX] Color Wrappers

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:46:51 -0700

----boundary-LibPST-iamunique-114976381_-_- Content-type: text/plain Aubrey, Aubrey.McIntosh{([at]})nowhere.xy I have been moving a V4 application to BB. I wanted a tinted background on a certain window as a hint of where to look while working. >From what I can tell, I can't extend TextViews.View. You should be able to extend it but then you also need to implement the Restore function of the view. I have to make a "wrapper" that implements this. I did have a short experiment where I bracketed the Viewer opening. (*This is the now depreciated ForestGreen from .css stylesheets.*) color := Ports.background; (*To have a colored background, I need to make a wrapper view. See Docu/Tut-6 or ObxWrappers.*) (* Ports.background := Ports.RGBColor(2BH, 8BH, 22H); *) tv := TextViews.dir.New(tm); (* root := Views.RootOf (tv); *) Views.OpenAux(tv, name$); Ports.background := color If you set Ports.background then *every* newly created view will have this color. I don't think you want that. Has anyone produced a color wrapper they want to publish? ObxWrappers beeps at me. Take a look at CPC's GftWrappers. It is not a color wrapper but... I haven't gone back to 1.5 or 1.4 to see if it works there. I remember that it worked in whatever version was live in 2000. -Doug Danforth ---- To unsubscribe, send a message with body "SIGNOFF BLACKBOX" to LISTSERV{([at]})nowhere.xy ----boundary-LibPST-iamunique-114976381_-_- Content-type: application/rtf Content-transfer-encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rtf-body.rtf" e1xydGYxXGFuc2lcYW5zaWNwZzEyNTJcZnJvbWh0bWwxIFxkZWZmMHtcZm9udHRibA0Ke1xmMFxm c3dpc3NcZmNoYXJzZXQwIEFyaWFsO30NCntcZjFcZm1vZGVybiBDb3VyaWVyIE5ldzt9DQp7XGYy XGZuaWxcZmNoYXJzZXQyIFN5bWJvbDt9DQp7XGYzXGZtb2Rlcm5cZmNoYXJzZXQwIENvdXJpZXIg TmV3O319DQp7XGNvbG9ydGJsXHJlZDBcZ3JlZW4wXGJsdWUwO1xyZWQwXGdyZWVuMFxibHVlMjU1 O1xyZWQ1MVxncmVlbjUxXGJsdWUyNTU7fQ0KXHVjMVxwYXJkXHBsYWluXGRlZnRhYjM2MCBcZjBc ZnMyNCANCntcKlxodG1sdGFnMjQzIDwhRE9DVFlQRSBodG1sIFBVQkxJQyAiLS8vVzNDLy9EVEQg SFRNTCA0LjAxIFRyYW5zaXRpb25hbC8vRU4iPn0NCntcKlxodG1sdGFnMyBccGFyIH0NCntcKlxo dG1sdGFnMTkgPGh0bWw+fQ0Ke1wqXGh0bWx0YWcyIFxwYXIgfQ0Ke1wqXGh0bWx0YWczNCA8aGVh 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