Re: [Tile-dev] Solid border frame

[Mats B. <ma...@pr...>]

Joe English wrote:
> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>> I'm trying to make a solid border frame that is so frequently used on Aqua
>>                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> but it always get black. [...]
> 
> Do you have any screenshots demonstrating the border style you're
> looking for?  (Or better yet, the name of the Appearance Manager
> API routine used to draw them? :-)
> 

Attached a few shots from various apps. Hope they make it to the mail list.
There is a further problem since they are usually not drawn on all four 
sides.
Perhaps a -borderwidth using the same syntax as -padding.
If you zoom in on Apples own list widget you see the lines overlap in 
the corners.

I guess that many of these borders belong to the widgets itself. 
Appearence.h:

   /*
    * The number of pixels that the list box frame is outset from the
    * content of the list box.
    */
   kThemeMetricListBoxFrameOutset = 6,

> I can't find any Aqua apps or controls that have "solid"
> (in the Tk/Motif sense) borders; most use rounded corners,
> or in some cases solid horizontal separators.
> 
I don't believe that separators are used.

> 
>> What is wrong with:
>> 	style layout BorderFrame {
>> 	    BorderFrame.border -sticky nswe
>> 	}
>> 	style configure BorderFrame  \
>> 	  -relief solid -borderwidth 1 -background gray50
> 
> The Tile Aqua theme inherits the default *.border element,
> which in turn just calls Tk_Draw3DBorder, where the border color
> for TK_RELIEF_SOLID is hardcoded to black.  But I've got more border 
> styles than you can shake a stick at over in the half-bakery [*], 
> one of them will probably work.
> 

Idioms wont be understood by non native speaking...
I hope it was funny ;-)

Mats