Kevin Miller wrote:
> On 17/7/01 6:34 pm, Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> 2) Make it apply to all objects (i.e., buttons and players also get a
>> focus border in the Motif look and feel, and it might be nice to be
>> able to turn this off).
>> 3) Make it global or an inheritable stack property.
>> 4) Hack the focusColor property to have some non-existing color be a
>> cue to not draw the focus border at all.
>
> It does need to apply object by object - as you do generally want this on.
> Turning it off happens on a case-by-case basis where you're doing something
> cool that the field object probably wasn't originally designed for (such as
> a multi-column list). In such a case, no way do you want to have an extra
> object there to draw the border with. As such it has to be 2 or 4, and I
> would go for 4, as 2 is going to be a real hassle from the cross-platform
> point of view (you have to turn this property off on Mac for buttons, but
> then turn it on again on UNIX).
My vote: I agree with Kevin's comments.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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