Re: a question about Camaelon

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 22 févr. 05, à 17:29, Enrico Sersale a écrit :

> I had some hard coded colors in GWorkspace so now I'm substituting 
> them with system colors to make the app working with Camaelon.

nice :-)
actually, it's usefull not only with camaelon, but also when you use 
different system colors.. (see color prefs)

> But I'm encountering some problems; Camaelon, in his turn, uses hard 
> coded colors in various places.

just a few ;-) and Camaelon 2 isn't released yet.. I'll clean the 
remaining hard-coded colors before the official release. But...

> For example, in NSBrowserCell.m and NSTableView.m we have: [NSColor 
> colorWithCalibratedRed: 0.7 green: 0.7 blue: 0.8 alpha: 1.0] and 
> [NSColor whiteColor].
> I think that Camaelon should override some NSColor class methods to 
> give me access to them; consider these examples: when you select an 
> icon, the frame behind it is a NSBezierPath filled with 
> +selectedControlColor (white); in Camaelon the background of the 
> windows is even white and the frame is not visible; so, I should 
> choose an other system color with Red: 0.7 green: 0.7 blue: 0.8 alpha: 
> 1.0 to make the selected icon consistent with the other selected 
> object, but I can't! An other example: the GW browser, besides the 
> file name, can show other things (kind, size, modification date, 
> etc.); the browser put these info in a second NSCell that is drawn in 
> the -drawInteriorWithFrame:inView: method of the browser cell; also in 
> this case, I've not access to the color used by Camaelon to draw the 
> super of my object, that is, NSBrowserCell.

... we also miss a few more system colors; for example, 
"rowBackgroundColor" that we could use in 
NSTableView/NSOutlineView/NSBrowserView (instead of 
controlBackgroundColor).

The question is, where should we put theses few new colors ? in the 
system color list or in the extended system color list used by 
NSToolbar ?

I guess it should go in the extended system color list, but at the same 
time, I think it's a bit annoying to have two system color lists.. what 
do you think?

Else, about Camaelon's use of color lists, I entirely agree with your 
post, of course. ;-)

Thanks,

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Nicolas Roard
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