[Tcl-bugs] [ tktoolkit-Patches-946106 ] XP visual styles support for native Tk widgets...

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Patches item #946106, was opened at 2004-05-02 00:38
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Georgios Petasis (petasis)
Assigned to: Jeffrey Hobbs (hobbs)
Summary: XP visual styles support for native Tk widgets...

Initial Comment:
I simply post here an updated version of my patch that adds 
drawing of native tk widgets (button, radiobutton, 
checkbutton, spinbox, entry) using the XP style engine. 
This patch adds a new option to all these widgets (-stylexp 
boolean) which controls the drawing. 
 

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>Comment By: Georgios Petasis (petasis)
Date: 2004-05-22 20:22

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I will try to, but I am a little pressed at least till the
end of the month :-)
A better approach however would be:

1) To use a global variable to control behaviour (as you
suggest)
2) On a widget level, to check whether a widget is
configured to have custom
drawing. When such a custom appearence is wanted (i.e. the
user has
set the -background option) no visual style to be used.

In this way, somebody that does "button .b -text {}" will
get a button drawn with the XP themes, but when he does ".b
configure -background yellow" to
get a button drawn by tk facilities. 

I think its the best compromise for those who do not want to
use the tile package, and for alder apps. What do you think?

George

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Comment By: Jeffrey Hobbs (hobbs)
Date: 2004-05-21 20:44

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Could you please resubmit this patch against the cvs head
where all the source changes are Tcl style compliant?  That
would be 4-space indentation levels with interleaved
tabs/spaces.

I also would want this to work with one global
::tk::useXpStyle linked var instead of per-widget.  While
the per-widget idea is nice for examples, I think the
all-or-nothing is the right way to go in general.

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