At 00|52 +0200 2002/04/23, Bart Lateur wrote: >On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 02:12:44 +0100, p kent wrote: > >>with the Mac toolbox stuff. Anyway, attached is Getopt::Mac, with POD, and >>a little demo program. I don't pretend that this code is particularly >>pretty and I'm sure it can be made a lot cleaner. However, it does work on >>my machine :-) > >I finally got the chance to check it out. What can I say: waugh. This >really is neat.
Kewl, it was just a rough attempt at actually using the Mac toolbox and building a real live dialog box (i.e. it was as much for my education as any nominal 'usefulness') I also agree with your various criticisms/suggestions. For one thing, it was typed in at 1am local time so it's missing the usual polish of my software, and for another I have no idea how one _should_ program a GUI, so I just read the tutorials and did what seemed to come to mind first. Anyway, the _really_ important question :-) is: how do I give a dialog box a platinum background (so that it looks like other 'modern' dialogs) ? I thought that simply building a _color_ dialog would be enough, and it would appear as the user specified in their Appearance control panel. P
