--- Bill Marriott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Is the Appearance Manager documented anywhere? Or, > even if it isn't, is > there a place where it "lives" and can it be > hacked/modified? I just ran > some stacks under a couple flavors of Linux, Ubuntu > and Linspire. I think > Ubuntu uses Gnome and Linspire uses KDE. In any > event, Rev didn't pick up > the look and feel of either of them; the stack > controls look like circa > 1992. > > Just wondering if it were possible to somehow modify > the appearances that > are there or add new ones. >
Hi Bill, The "Appearance Manager" is just like any other lookAndFeel - the engine may hand off the drawing of the controls to the operating system instead of drawing those with its internal routines; but you cannot change the look of the controls. Revolution is flexible enough to let you simulate nearly every type of control from script, but it's a bit of a hassle and results in a lrger number of controls on your card. <offtopic> Java's lookAndFeel system allows you to replace the rendering with your own, but it's not that easy to implement the whole array of controls that make up a UI. There is however an open-source lookAndFeel calld 'Skin' that allows you to control the appearance of controls by setting images that are then used to draw the controls. A button would be defined by images for the topleft, topright, bottomleft and bottomright corners and the texture for the top, right, bottom and left edges that the lookAndFeel uses to compose the button control. I think ButtonGadget offers something similar and that Photoshop users refer to this as 'splicing' - but I don't do multimedia stuff, so I may very well be waaay off :-) </offtopic> In short, you can't do it out of the box, but it might be a very interesting feature request to put into bugzilla - an external API that would allow C-savvy developers to create their own lookAndFeel. Cheers, Jan Schenkel. Quartam Reports for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com> ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
