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

[Fay J. F C. AAC/W. <joh...@eg...>]

Melchior,

<off-topic>
	Ah, so you're not fair dinkum ... I can see where people might get
confused, though.  Do Austrians have an expression like "fair dinkum" to
indicate membership?  I think the best we can muster in the United States is
"red-blooded American."
</off-topic>

	I'm not quite up on my bitmap font conventions, but I need to ask
whether your change moves the letters "j" and "f" over one pixel to the left
or whether it increases their width by one pixel.  I think it does the
latter.  If this is the case, the next question is do we want them to be
wider or do we want them one pixel to the left?

John F. Fay
Technical Fellow, Jacobs/Sverdrup TEAS Group
850-729-6330
joh...@eg...
 
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Subject: [Plib-devel] Re: [PATCH] puListBox: don't use hard-coded colo rs

* 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.