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Re: color of button [message #18482 is a reply to message #18471]

Thu, 06 January 2000 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Ian Dean (Ian.Dean@Gecm.com) writes:

> I've achieved a workaround for this using Motif X-windows under OpenVMS.
>
> This entailed creating two bases in the same position. Each of these bases
> contains an identical button, but with a different RESOURCE colour for its
> background. The event handler for the button then maps/unmaps the relevant
> bases to give the effect of changing button colour.

Years ago I wrote a "color button" widget that was really
a draw widget disguised as a button. (But it returned
button events, so it was just a drop-in replacement for
button widgets.) This would work so much better these
days with object graphics.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: color of button By: cjengo on Fri, 07 January 2000 00:00
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		Re: color of button By: Ian Dean on Thu, 06 January 2000 00:00
		Re: color of button By: Bernard Puc on Wed, 05 January 2000 00:00

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