[Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs

2003-01-19 Thread David Megginson
The translucent dialogs we've been using look very spiffy, but it turns out that they're not all that practical once you start using things like pop-up menus in combo boxes. Take a look at the clouds dialog in the latest CVS (FlightGear and base package) to see why. How would people feel about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs

2003-01-19 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: The translucent dialogs we've been using look very spiffy, but it turns out that they're not all that practical once you start using things like pop-up menus in combo boxes. Take a look at the clouds dialog in the latest CVS (FlightGear and base package) to see why.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs

2003-01-19 Thread David Luff
On 1/19/03 at 6:06 PM David Megginson wrote: The translucent dialogs we've been using look very spiffy, but it turns out that they're not all that practical once you start using things like pop-up menus in combo boxes. Take a look at the clouds dialog in the latest CVS (FlightGear and base

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs

2003-01-19 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: The translucent dialogs we've been using look very spiffy, but it turns out that they're not all that practical once you start using things like pop-up menus in combo boxes. Take a look at the clouds dialog in the latest CVS (FlightGear and base package) to see why.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs

2003-01-19 Thread Michael Basler
David, The translucent dialogs we've been using look very spiffy, but it turns out that they're not all that practical once you start using things like pop-up menus in combo boxes. Take a look at the clouds dialog in the latest CVS (FlightGear and base package) to see why. How would people

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs

2003-01-19 Thread Michael Basler
David, After getting recent CVS updates the menu crash is gone for me too. Great Work you guys! Regards, Michael -- Michael Basler, Jena, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/pmb.geo/ ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs

2003-01-19 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: How would people feel about going opaque? What about 90% opaque? Just enough to say, yeah, we're cool but for all practical purposes, they are opaque ... (?) Sounds like a good compromise. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED],

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Translucent Dialogs

2003-01-19 Thread David Megginson
Michael Basler writes: Could we draw the menu line over the full width, independent of resolution? This is common for nearly all programs on all platforms I know. Right now we're using the higher-level PUI menubar widget, so we have to take what we get. To change its appearance, we'd