Re: Problems with setup colors in snapshot

[mwoehlke <mwoehlke at tibco dot com>]

mwoehlke wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 May 2006, mwoehlke wrote:
> > > A while back I posted about the colors in setup.exe. I noticed that the
> > > text background color is fixed but that there is still a problem with
> > > the tree structure; specifically, the clickable [+] and [-] icons are,
> > > on my colors, effectively invisible. On some other color schemes I
> > > tried, they *are* 100% invisible.
> >
> > Yes, this is most likely reproducible (as the foreground color of those
> > icons is *always* black.
> >
> > > 3: If I pick, e.g. (64,0,128) for my window background color, the
> > > tree becomes the *exact* same color as the background.
> >
> > Hmm, weird -- for me the foreground color of the icons is *always*
> > black.
>
> Unfortunately, a: this isn't the case for me, and b: as you've so 
> astutely pointed out, if it was that would still be problematic :-). (In 
> reality, I've learned that *someone* is always going to exercise poor 
> design and so I usually pick a background light enough for black to be 
> at least marginally visible against it).
>
> > Theoretically, it should be a simple matter of using MaskBlt instead of
> > BitBlt with the properly configured pen color and the properly set up
> > mask.  In practice, making this work on all platforms (including Win9x),
> > correctly, and with the minimum amount of code changes is a big pain.
>
> I'm using Win2k3 R2 x64 and (see attached screenshot) I can assure you 
> it doesn't work on my system. Maybe my OS is the problem? (Hmm... yup, 
> the problem has to be Windows ;-).)
>
> Also, I'd test on my XP system but it is consistently dereferencing a 
> NULL :-(. (On W2k3 R2 it did that *once* and has since run just fine.)

After tweaking and rebuilding 2.529 from the tarball, I can confirm, for 
whatever it's worth, that I see the same behavior on XP. Maybe now that 
I have the sources built I'll be more likely to submit a patch. :-) Time 
permitting, of course.

--
Matthew
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