[Plib-devel] Re: [PATCH] puListBox: don't use hard-coded colo rs

[Melchior F. <mf...@us...>]

* Fay John F Contr AAC/WMG -- Wednesday 13 July 2005 15:11:
> I'm back.  Bring on the patch!

One is attached. It increases the space after j and f in the Helvetica_12
font. You can see the "before" state in this screenshot:

  http://members.aon.at/mfranz/fgfs_gui8.jpg  [50 kB]

This screenshot also shows the puComboBox ugliness (same for puSelectBox):
the input areas don't pick up any color and only use setColourScheme-colors,
but not explicitly set colors. FlightGear's theming "engine" would need that,
though. I don't really know how it's fixed best. The problem are the puObject
children. All six colors are used up already, so how would we set the color
of the puInput-child's PUCOL_FOREGROUND? Adding a seventh color is probably
not welcomed. Abusing another color for that? PUCOL_MISC? And having no way
to set the cursor color? Hmmm ...



> Melchior, if I may ask, where is "here" that you don't have this kind of
> catastrophe?

Austria (no kangaroos). No tornado and such things here. I guess we are
too far away from the sea. All we have are occasional floods after heavy
rain, but our country isn't exactly flat, so that can't last long either. :-)

m.