Signe Marie,
Just to clarify - the lookAndFeel property should be set to "Macintosh", not
"mac". Did you perhaps misspell the property value?
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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Website: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Signe Marie Sanne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: disabled in 2.4
> >At 11:46 AM +0200 9/13/01, Signe Marie Sanne wrote:
> >>>What happened to the disabled appearance of a button in MC2.4? I
> >>>have a standard button, with show border,3D, opaque and disabled,
> >>>white text (255,255,255) on red background. On Mac (8.5) there's
> >>>no difference in the disabled/enabled states, on Windows 2000 the
> >>>white text seems greenish, but otherwise there is no difference
> >>>from the enabled state. Is it no longer enough just scripting:
> >>>enable/disable btn x or checking/unchecking the disabled in the
> >>>button properties?
> >>>--
> >>
> >>Since I have not received any comments to my posting above, I can
> >>supply further details: The buttons above have no icons, just Show
> >>name. On PC the reason for the greenish look was "set the
> >>selectionhandlecolor to green". When I removed it, the text in the
> >>disabled state became grey as in MC2.3. So on PC it looks OK. On
> >>Mac there is still no discernible difference in the
> >>disabled/enabled states. Is this a bug?
> >
> >I'm seeing the text go grey when I disable the button, no matter
> >what else I do. Mac OS 9.0.4, MC 2.4.
> >
>
> Thanks to Ken and Geoff!
>
> (To Ken: my first name is Signe Marie)
>
> I have finally found a solution which works, but seems contradictory:
>
> when I on opening the stack on Mac use - set lookandfeel to "os
> native"- or - set lookandfeel to "mac" - I still can see no
> difference in the two states. When I ask for: the lookandfeel, it
> answers "Motif" which was the setting I had used earlier on. But when
> I use: set lookandfeel to "windows 95" (still on Mac!!) the disabled
> button's text is dimmed as it should be. It's all right for me that
> the backgroundcolor does not change (as in MC2.3), and I am really
> glad that the size of the button does not swell and become rounded
> (on a standard btn). Now it remains to be seen if this setting will
> affect other things in my programs (?)
>
> Regards
> Signe Marie
> --
>
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