On Dec 23, 2009, at 14:53:43, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 24/12/2009, at 8:26 AM, Gregory Weston wrote: > >> With this expanded explanation, I think the correct answer is that you're >> going about it the wrong way. It's not a normal Mac HI behavior for a >> drawing canvas to draw itself differently as a side-effect of its window >> being inactive. > > Well, it depends. > > Drawing canvases may or may not support the idea of a selection, and so > highlight selected objects in a certain way. That highlight might want to be > sensitive to the active state of the window so that it can be drawn using the > inactive control colour when inactive rather than a bright highlight, or > turned off altogether. Bright highlighting in inactive windows is distracting > and misleading. > > In DrawKit I do this, and the only way was to subscribe to the window's > notifications for becoming/resigning main and refreshing the view.
Thanks for confirming this is the way you do it. Helps reassure me it's a workable solution. Thanks again!_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
