Tabbed Buttons going blank

[richmond62]

As you can see, this is a load of rubbish:
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As the button that refers to the card has no visible text:

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on menuPick KARD
   go to card KARD
end menuPick

But that is because the backGroundFill of the tabbed button has been set to white:
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Why the F-F that should affect the tab escapes me completely.
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All a bit silly really as just a bit counter-intuitive.

[dunbarx]

Richmond.

You may have to play around with the "backColor" and the "textColor" of a tab panel a bit. Maybe the confusion is what those properties actually refer to in that sort of compound control.

Craig

[richmond62]

Maybe the confusion is what those properties actually refer to in that sort of compound control.

Very much so: a far more experienced programmer and LiveCoder fell foul of this this week.

[richmond62]

Does this behave differently cross-platform?

[jacque]

There was/is a bug report about this, I think it started in Catalina. As far as I know it's only Mac but I haven't tried it on Windows. I vaguely recall it was fixed but I can't swear to it.

[richmond62]

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I would be most grateful if you could run this on Windows and post a snapshot here.

[stam]

I’m pretty sure it’s a Mac-only issue. On windows I believe it inherits the colour from its container or some such.

[SparkOut]

Not sure what I'm supposed to check, but just on opening the stack in 9.6.7 on Windows I get:

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[richmond62]

You have checked things: thank you.

[mwieder]

Yep - OSX only, and for some reason, by design.
Set the Wayback Machine for 2016:

https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17219

[richmond62]

https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17219

Err . . . BRAVE :
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SAFARI:
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Something that needs sorting out.

[mwieder]

no worries though. The certificate expired a couple of days ago. I'm sure Robin will sort things out.

[richmond62]

All rather a big pity that Fraser Gordon left the ship.