Re: [Tile-dev] Tree/tableview: box around highlighted item

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

A couple of weeks ago, Kevin Walzer wrote:
> Joe English wrote:
> > That's the focus ring, and it's supposed to be a dotted line.
> > Did something change in the OSX XLib emulation layer recently?
> > I'm almost sure that this used to draw correctly.
>
> It might be dotted--it's actually hard to tell when it's also surrounded
> by the dark gray/blue selectbackground.
>
> However, it really shouldn't be there at all, at least on the Mac. I
> can't speak to how Windows or X handles things, but native table and
> treeviews under Aqua don't use focus rings. Focus is indicated by the
> column header being highlighted in the Aqua-blue style.


Argh, sorry, forgot all about this.  Anyway: (1) yes, that's
the focus ring, (2) it is indeed drawn as a solid line on OSX
instead of a dotted line as intended; and (3) it doesn't 
belong there in the Aqua theme at all.

#3 fixed in CVS now; in the meantime you can use:

    style theme settings aqua {
	style layout Item {
	    Treeitem.padding -children {
	    	Treeitem.indicator -side left -sticky {}
		Treeitem.image -side left -sticky {}
		Treeitem.text -side left -sticky {}
	    }
	}
    }

in your app to fix this for Tile 0.7.8 and earlier.

#2 still affects the other themes.  It's an Xlib emulation 
layer glitch, not much can be done about it.  A similar
problem is present on Windows, where the root theme "focus"
element is drawn with dashed lines instead of dotted.


--Joe English