On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:37:58 -0800, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> wrote:
On 2013-02-19 21:43, Adam Wilson wrote:
My point is that I should not have to rebuild a scrollbar from the
ground up when I want to make it look different. Or button, or textbox,
or whatever. When I need scrolling functionality I just use a scrollbar
then style it for the required usage, in many ways this vastly reduces
improper widget function due to being able to apply a standard
implementation to a much wider variety of usages, I have ListBoxes in my
WPF projects that you'd have no idea were just ListBoxes because the
look nothing like an OS ListBox For example one ListBox I have looks
more like a TreeView, except that I didn't actually need the TreeView
capability, I just need to make it LOOK like one. I also usually add
some useful visuals that the OS widget could never do.
Most in most tool kits you can override a drawing function or specify
some properties to change to look of a control.
Most allow you to tweak certain aspects, not remove the entire rendering
output and start over. I've never found any OS widget kit that allows
completely and total control of the widget at the pixel level.
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Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
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The Horizon Project
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