Ian Wood wrote:
I'm probably mixing up terminology here, but aren't the windows *content* regions on OS X always white, no matter which version of OS X?
That's a good question. From the user's perspective, the "content region" is where they put their content, be it a drawing space or a field for typing or whatever, separate from any toolbars or other controls which may exist in that window.
In this context I'm using "content region" in the generic sense used in Inside Mac, referring to the whole interior of the window below the title bar and within the window's edges.
Windows of style modeless, modal, and palette automatically take on the appropriate OS color/pattern one would expect, but toplevel windows in Rev do not, and programmatically it's far simpler to leave document windows in an app as toplevel, and reserve modeless for specialized auxiliary views and/or controls. And on Windows, modeless is a radically different window style altogether, completely unsuitable for documents.
What Rev does with making every toplevel stack white is appropriate for drawing applications, which are ironically uniquely difficult to make in Rev as opposed to, say, SuperCard.
For more common uses, like forms or really just about anything else, the standard OS appearance would be more appropriate.
Frankly it's surprising that support for common native appearance of toplevel windows has been left out of all upgrades to date, even as it's available on Windows.
Hopefully a little nudging via votes will see this addressed. Thank you for turning up the original request - I've marked the new one as a duplicate and closed it, referring to the original you found:
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