| Widget colors under X windows [message #2619] |
Thu, 11 August 1994 06:29  |
zawodny
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Registered: August 1992
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I am running IDL V-3.5 (soon to go to V-3.6.1) on a DEC
3000-400AXP under OSF 1.3. I am not very pleased with the appearance of
exclusive button widgets in that it is difficult to tell which button is
selected. I have managed to select a color scheme which gives
sufficient highlight to the active buttons so that they can be
differentiated reasonably well. However, this was obtained by altering
the Window Foreground and Background colors under the Window Options
menu of the mwm window manager. So now, all my other windows have "odd"
color schemes (I like white text on a black background in my DECterm
windows). Is there a way to specify the colors used in IDL widgets
independently of the colors used by the windowing system in general?
Perhaps I can set something in my .Xdefaults file?
Ideally (ie. in some future release of IDL) it would be nice to
be able to specify the 3 button colors for both the selected and
unselected buttons (perhaps the insensitive ones as well). Not knowing
anything about X-windows, I have no idea if this is even possible. I am
not suggesting that every button in a widget be able to support a
separate color scheme rather that widgets (maybe by selecting the colors
when creating the root base widget) be able to present a consistent and
controlled color appearance when used by different users or on different
platforms.
Any help, comments, or general discussion of this matter would
be of interest to me and perhaps others on the net. As an afterthought,
it would be nice to get the list and meaning of ALL the IDL (Widget)
resources that can be specified via the .Xdefaults file.
TIA,
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Joseph M. Zawodny (KO4LW) NASA Langley Research Center
Internet: zawodny@arbd0.larc.nasa.gov MS-475, Hampton VA, 23681-0001
TCP/IP: ko4lw@ko4lw.ampr.org Packet: ko4lw@n4hog.va.usa
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| Re: Widget colors under X windows [message #2696 is a reply to message #2619] |
Mon, 15 August 1994 07:59  |
8015
Messages: 52
Registered: November 1993
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In article <32d945$a23@reznor.larc.nasa.gov>,
Joseph M Zawodny <zawodny@arbd0.larc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> I am running IDL V-3.5 (soon to go to V-3.6.1) on a DEC
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> windows). Is there a way to specify the colors used in IDL widgets
> independently of the colors used by the windowing system in general?
> Perhaps I can set something in my .Xdefaults file?
>
...
> Any help, comments, or general discussion of this matter would
> be of interest to me and perhaps others on the net. As an afterthought,
> it would be nice to get the list and meaning of ALL the IDL (Widget)
> resources that can be specified via the .Xdefaults file.
>
Hi Joseph -
This may interest you. From the "whatsnew.txt" file in the notes
subdirectory of the IDL 3.6 distribution:
RESOURCE_NAME KEYWORD TO WIDGET CREATION FUNCTIONS
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The RESOUCE_NAME keyword is an X Windows only keyword to the
widget creation functions (e.g., WIDGET_BASE, WIDGET_BUTTON, etc.)
that allows you to assign Motif resource names to individual
widgets. Once a widget has been assigned a resource name, you
can change many aspects of its appearance and behavior such as its color
and accelerator key. See the documentation for WIDGET_BASE in the
IDL Reference Guide for details.
This ought to let you muck with the colors and resources of your
widgets to your heart's content.
email replies to schienle@igate1.hac.com until 8015@... stops bouncing.
Mike Schienle Hughes Santa Barbara Research Center
8015@sbsun0010.sbrc.hac.com 75 Coromar Drive, M/S B28/87
Voice: (805)562-7466 Fax: (805)562-7881 Goleta, CA 93117
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