Scott Raney wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> If I set the focusColor of a field to empty, it uses the focusColor of its
>> owner. But in my layout I don't want the focusColor to show at all -- how
>> can I turn it off?
>
> I assume you're using 2.4 on a Mac and are talking about the focus
> border. The only way to do this is to set the look and feel to
> Windows 95. And before you say "but that doesn't look right on a
> Mac", please consider than a field without a focus border doesn't
> either, at least according to the HIG ;-)
You may want to reconsider whether that should be optional: I'm making a
multi-column list, so to emulate a true multi-column list object we need to
place several fields side by side, one for each column. Whenever the user
clicks on a culumn, its edge hilites due to this property. If that doesn't
go away, I can't do cropped list display in MC at all -- it'll kill three of
my biggest client projects!
If you really wanna be HIG-compliant, go ahead an add a multi-column list
object. :) Otherwise, I'd settle for some way to turn off the focusColor.
There are probably other circumstances where we might want that off as well.
What would have to happen to get a means of turning it off into MC 2.4?
Really gotta have it if we're going to be able to continue using MC.
And if you've suddenly gotten religous about the Mac UI, at this point
you're alone: Amelio fired the HI research team, and Steve Jobs never
rehired them -- merely replaced them with graphic artists. Usability on the
Mac is passe with OS X.... Apple has effectively been running blind for
years now in the one area which has always been their market differentiator.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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