On Aug 30, 2006, at 7:30 AM, Steve Goodrich wrote:
Hi list,
I need some advice about how to accomplish something in REALbasic.
In our application, we have a column of buttons that navigate
several screens. I.E. each button jumps you quickly to a different
window. That window may or may not be visible at any given time and
pushing the button makes it visible and gives it focus. There are
times that very important information may be waiting on one of
those screens. We need a non-intrusive way (no pop-ups) to draw
attention to the buttons without being annoying.
In the current version of our product, written with another
development tool, we just changed the color of the text of those
buttons to red. It was something that drew attention to the button
without getting in the way of people working and without being
annoying. We need something similar that works on both the Mac and
Windows (and ultimately Linux).
We really want to use push buttons because they look super nice on
both platforms.
Since changing the color of text on a buttons seems to be
considered a sin just below drowning nuns, what are my options?
How about using a BevelButton. It allows positional Icons, colored
text/icons and looks similar on most platforms. It can react just
like a pushbutton and the Icon can be something as simple as an
asterisk, a checkmark, a Star, an "X", a bullet, etc.
Terry
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