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

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

* Fay John F Contr AAC/WMG -- Thursday 15 September 2005 20:58:

Sorry for the late reply. I had actually replied immediately, but used
the wrong sender address, so it got rejected without me noticing.


> Why would it break backward compatibility for the input box?

It wouldn't necessarily. But for consistency reasons, the combo/list boxes
new input field color would, of course, have to be used for the input field.



> We could initialize it to whatever the present color is and not change
> it unless the application changes it.   Applications that don't know about
> would not worry.

But this would fail for programs that *do* already change the input field's
color, using the old color type. Well, of course we would let the input field
listen to both color qualities, right?

I would really like to get rid of those pink boxes:
http://members.aon.at/mfranz/fgfs_gui8.jpg  [50 kB]

m.  :-)