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I haven't been able sofar to change the backgroundcolor of an option button or a combobox.
If I do "set the beackgroundcolor of button "Combobox" , nothing happens.

Please help,

Rob van der Sloot

Dag Rob,

I'm afraid this explanation also covers your current problem:
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=25452


Best

Klaus

A long time ago in another Universe: well, Metacard, there was an option to have
various effects such as fake Windows, something called 'Motif' (pug-ugly early Linux thing),
and so on. I wonder if it is not possible to build things into Livecode in such a way that
they over-ride both the underlying window manager (OS) and the need to roll one's own.

c.f. http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nab ... 15982.html

Sorry; having cracked open Metacard I may be wrong; possibly that was Livecode (the IDE
previously known as Prince (has to be Purple), err, Runtime Revolution) at version 1.1.1.

Hi Richmond,

MetaCard HAD the "lookandfeel" property (hey, they invented it! ), but not in a menu in the IDE.
And LC 8.x still suppports this property, but not in the IDE menus anymore.


Best

Klaus

Hi, Klaus

Well, it might be time for Livecode to make more of it . . . .

Certainly, as I have always tried to ensure my stuff looks the same regardless of which
operating system with whatever window manager it runs any extra help is always welcome.

Frankly a bit tired of having to take snapshots of every button the way I want them to ensure that
when I move a stack from Mac > Win > Lin or any other move things look 100% the same.

Fresh from the Dictionary: "set the lookAndFeel to {"Appearance Manager"|Macintosh|Motif|"Windows 95"}"

Err . . . Windows 95 . . . slight case of Retro Chique Je pense.

Presumably 'Macintosh' means Mac OS 8.1 ?

Since the "lookandfeel" is not part of the menus in the LC IDE anymore, I think this will completely disappear in the (near) future.
But maybe LC will "pimp" the new "theme" property more in the future!?

Can't wait!

Oh, behaaaave!

Hi Klaus,

Thanks for the information.
I am an old Filemaker programmer, and thereby I am a bit spoiled with ready made solutions.
But I like LC much more then Filemaker.
So now I know which I already felt intuitively, that I have to create my own combobox and option menu to be able to change the colors.

All the best,
Rob

Hartelijk dank

I can envision circumstances where this could be useful - I've submitted a request for it:
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18005