>Dave Cragg wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>I am one of those affected.
I haven't used 2.4 too much yet, but I can see this being a bit
problem for a project or two I have coming up - namely, a game. In
games, HIG are usually thrown right out the window in order to get
something to look "cool" and "neat," and having a border stick its
butt outside of the field's rect is a bit annoying, if not crippling
to some applications...
I notice the Finder doesn't have a focus color border when you edit
an icon's name, and AppleWorks, Eudora, and plenty other text-editing
programs don't put a focus border around the main typing space...
I suppose one hack around this would be to make text fields that you
can't have borders with wherever you want them, set their lockText to
true, and then put keystrokes into the field by way of a card-level
keyDown handler with a global that would store which field it should
put newly-typed text into... but this is a hack for basic
functionality here 8-)
Actually, if we're really adhering to the HIG, shouldn't the
focusColor not be able to be chosen by MC developers, and only by the
user? ;-)
Only giving a hard time, aside from this quirk 2.4 looks to be a
great product... but Scott, please, couldn't you find a little time
to sneak that property in, even at this (admittedly really late)
stage of development? You'd make at least three of us (by the count
so far) very happy.
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