At 4:14 pm -0700 12/7/01, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>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!
This is a big issue. There are many situations where a focus border
isn't wanted. Educational applications come to mind immediately. For
example, for young kids, imagine you want the learners to input some
text in a field that is designed to look like a notebook. Switching
to Windows Look and Feel *might* work, but we then have to think
through all the consequences of doing that. Being able to have plain
and undecorated editable text fields is surely a basic requirement
for a multimedia development tool.
The HIG argument makes no sense. Guidleines are what you follow when
you have no reason to do things differently. I want to be able to
follow them, but not forced to.
As it stands, I'll be unable to use 2.4 for a large part of my work.
This is a pity as there are so many fine new features in there. I
wonder how many others are affected by this.
In a similar vein, I can't find a way to turn off Drag 'n Drop in
text fields. I'm sure this is something else that we don't always
want turned on.
Cheers
Dave Cragg
Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
