You totally miss the point of my email.
Why should I have to resort to drawing up a window in one colour then
changing it and suffering a flash as the colours change? It's not just GD2, happens also if you try this in a non-GD2 system
Simple example. A menu with one loose item and one info window.
10 MDRAW #0,win1_testmenu_men 20 MWINDOW #0,1! : PAPER #0,2 : CLS #0 : REMark this flashes two colours 30 REPeat loop 40 num = MCALL(#0) 45 IF num = -1 THEN EXIT loop 50 END REPeat loop 60 MCLEAR #0
1. I can't change the colour of the border or main window unless I cover the main window with an info window. If Easyptr allowed, say, MWINDOW #0,0 for the main outline it might then be possible to change the main menu colour.
2. On a slow computer (my PC is slow enough) line 10 draws the menu. The info window briefly flashes up in its designed colour then changes colour. If I designed the infdo window to be green, then change it to red in line 20, there is an annoying flash. Unforrtunately, MSETUP, then changing paper colour of the element, then MDRAW does not work, MDRAW seems to change paper colour.
I totally object to you claiming it is workable in high colour as it stands. The flashing alone is irritating.
So I am not wrong at all. There are things you can't do and there are plenty of things which can only be done as workarounds as it stands.
What shoul;d happen is that the menu can be set up, colour values defined then the menu drawn. As it stands, menus have to be drawn and they flash into different colours. Anyone who doubts me on that is welcome to come here and try. It is the exact reason why none of my Easyptr programs use high colours, I couldn't stand the flashing.
If it was possible to do something like:
MSETUP #0,mymenu:rem don't show original on screen REMark change colours before originals are drawn MCOLOUR #0,menu_element_number,colour_number MDRAW #0 : REM draw in new colours
it might be possible for me to do what I want, whichis to allow users to specify colours in a config block and set these at runtime.
Dilwyn Jones
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Uhlig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] EasyPtr was movig sbasic
Am Sat, 5 Mar 2005 21:20:03 -0000 hat Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben:
It would be useful if menu colours could be made to assume the new Window Manager colours in some form (standard appearances and all that), ...They can, no problem about that.
It would be useful if the menu colours could be changed at runtime. At the moment, once they are defined in the Easymenu layout, that's it, the colours are fixed unless you manipulate the colour palettes or whatever.Sorry, but this is nonsense! Except for the "main window" you can change colour and ink of ANY window from within a program. Just use "MWINDOW"!
Wolfgang
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