At 5:52 PM -0700 2/15/02, Terry Dennis wrote: >The bad news is that there AREN"T any glue routines for accessing >(view or update) the frame type for buttons. I'm trying to create a >button without a frame. Actually, it's a series of user-defined >buttons. The number of buttons is dynamically defined at runtime. >We (as in, the user) want a smaller button than is provided by >default, and don't want the vertical and horizontal outlines >separating the buttons. We just want to draw a rectangle around the >entire group of buttons. For the purpose of this particular UI, it >looks a lot cleaner that way, and takes up less landscape. It works >beautifully, but I have to set the frametype to "noFrame", as in: >"ctlP->attr.frame = noButtonFrame;". Naturally, POSE slaps my >wrist. There was a discussion several months ago about providing >access to all the attributes via "legal" functions, but it doesn't >appear to have made it beyond discussion stage.
No... there was a discussion about providing access to all *supported* attributes. And setting frames wasn't on that list. (Not my decision ... I'm just the messenger here...) -- Keith -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
