RE: [Tile-dev] alternate entry background?

[Techentin, R. W. <tec...@ma...>]

>     style map TEntry -fieldbackground {invalid #FF7777}
> 
> This doesn't work everywhere -- in particular, it will have
> no effect on Windows XP (since the EP_EDITTEXT theme part 
> always uses system colors, and there's no ETS_* flag
> corresponding to an "invalid" state).   "-foreground"
> ought to work in all themes AFAIK.

But that's not a WindowsXP limitation, is it?  My Firefox browser displays a
yellow background in the URL entry for secure connections.  It must be
possible to change the background on XP.

> I will adjust my use to use a red foreground rather 
> than the lightyellow bg for invalid that we had.  
> However, this isn't ideal for those cases where an 
> empty entry field is also not valid ...

Also don't forget that a red foreground is indistinguishable from a black
foreground for the small percentage of (mostly) guys who are color blind.

Bob
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