On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Alan Gauld <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26/11/14 17:39, boB Stepp wrote: > [...] >> The application I am attempting to write will show up in the >> foreground of our planning software. This planning software has its >> own color scheme, which all of us are quite used to. > > > Seriously? It colours its own title bars? That's really poor. > Unless you test all employees for colour blindness first and > don't employ those blind to your colour scheme? > And that's probably illegal now in most western countries!
Color-blind users would not be able to be hired to do this work. Having normal color vision is a job requirement. Of course, the title bar colors are truly immaterial, but the colors of the isodose lines that tell the user what dose different areas of the treatment area are getting are critical. Contoured structures, both targets of the radiation and organs that must be spared are all color coded. However, my lack of skill and ignorance (as usual) is the problem... Thankfully, Alan, you got me to thinking. And exploring. On our systems it is difficult to know what is coming from the OS, Solaris-10, and what is coming from the planning software. I had never used Solaris prior to getting my current position and the last time I had dabbled in Unix there were no windows-based interfaces, at least not in the academic environment I was in then. So I went into the common desktop environment without the planning system running and verified that the planning system is in fact using that color scheme for its windows. Which got me to wondering why the trivial test window I created was not matching. It turns out that the window was not getting focus unless the mouse was over the test window, which resulted in in being totally gray except for the radio button selected. My bad! I have been playing with Tkinter on a Windows PC and then copying the code over to the nearby Solaris box to see how it looks. I did not have any need (yet) to actually click on anything, I was just looking for the overall appearance of the window and its subelements. But as usual you were very helpful and got my thinking (such as it is) going in the proper direction! -- boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
