On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Albrecht Schlosser <[email protected]>wrote:
> Rasmus Lindén wrote: > > First, let me describe what led me to my problem. I installed FLTK 2, > > thinking a bit that it was the latest and greatest. I played around with > it > > a bit, and it was working fine, but I read a bit more and realized that > FLTK > > 1.3 was where the development and stability was. > > That's bad, sorry for the inconvenience. We're about to improve this. > > > So I downloaded FLTK 1.3 > > and installed it, the prebuilt binaries in the test folder looks like > this: > > http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/3373/testbuttons.png > > > > but when I compile my own applications, it looks like this: > > http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2629/73491787.png > > > > (when I compiled my own applications with FLTK2, they looked like the > test > > binaries) > > > > I am on a Windows XP SP3 system and I use MinGW to compile. > > > > Does anyone know what the issue might be? Can I somehow force the more > > 'Windows' look? > > You probably didn't use > > window->show(argc, argv); > > to show the first window. This call loads the system default look, while > > window->show(); > > (without argc,argv) doesn't. > > You can also call Fl::get_system_colors() before showing the main window > (see the link below [1]). Another nice feature is to use a scheme, e.g. > Fl::scheme("gtk+") [2] before showing your window. If you're using > show(argc,argv), then you can also use the commandline option -s "gtk+" > or -s "plastic" to do the same without calling Fl::scheme() in your > program. > > Albrecht > > [1] > <http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.3/classFl.html#ed0a7958eebf1491685040be87490947 > > > [2] > <http://www.fltk.org/doc-1.3/classFl.html#15a061056c940e811090976cbd733305 > > > Thanks, the Fl::get_system_colors() solved it. And thanks for the Fl::scheme tip. I am really liking FLTK so far, finally a GUI toolkit that is easy to wrap your head around. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
