Re: [Pythoncard-users] colored rectangles

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Alex Tweedly <al...@tw...> wrote on 08/01/2005 05:31:59 PM:

>> bra...@om... wrote: 
> 
>> One thing my users miss now that we've transitioned away from 
> >FileMaker is the color. 
>> In FileMaker, specific regions of a form were colored to help break 
>> up the window 
>> into visual groupings. This was accomplished in FileMaker through the 
use of 
>> a rectangle widget. 
>> Does anyone have any recommendations for how to bring more color to 
>> PythonCard layouts? 

> imageButton with no file (image) specified. set to visible, 
> disabled, border = none and set the backgroundColor to what you 
> want.  (just watch your layer order  :-)

That sounds like a nifty solution, but it didn't work when I tried it on
the Mac. It just turns gray and is unresponsive to changes in the
backgroundColor or foregroundColor. If I set the border to transparent,
the whole image button turns transparent (still gray), but when the
border is None, the image button obscures any overlapping widgets, 
even the ones that are supposedly in front.

The Image widget worked a little better, in that I could change the
color, but it still obscures all overlapping widgets.

I'm using PythonCard .82 (latest CVS) and wxPython 2.5.3 on Mac OS 10.4.2
with Python 2.3.5. Since I'm at home today, I don't have access to my
work PC, but tomorrow I can try it on Windows XP.