Hello Joe,
I use this approach for "fake sheet" implementations, too. One thing to watch
for: enabling the group once you have dismissed the "fake sheet" will enable
*ALL* the controls in the group... including controls that might have been
disabled before the sheet appeared. One way to ha
Richard, I made that adjustment sometime back. It still is smaller than what I
prefer. Maybe that's because I'm running XP under Fusion.
My preference is Black on white. The gray on gray that is fairly prevalent is
maybe the worse.
Joe Lewis Wilkins
Architect & Director of Product Development f
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Thanks for chiming in. The size and case of the text. More and more
> senior citizens use computers and many have vision problems as acute
> or worse than my own.
Good news: Windows provides a built-in means for users to adjust their
font sizes system
Hi Richard,
Thanks for chiming in. The size and case of the text. More and more senior
citizens use computers and many have vision problems as acute or worse than my
own. For instance, the LC splash screen cannot be read by me due to the colors
that are used, which is even worse than the often,
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
I appreciate ALL of your comments. The problem is that I want my
application to be as Mac-Like as possible, since the standard
Window's implementations are really bad. It's more important that
the user be able to SEE and READ what I'm presenting than to conform
to other
I would go for this approach as well - for the simple reason that it avoids
'traversalOn' issues where the user could still 'tab' to a control and then
press the 'space' or 'return' key to activate a button.
Plus, disabled controls look slightly different, and combined with an opaque
'overlay' g
Jacqui,
I appreciate ALL of your comments. The problem is that I want my application to
be as Mac-Like as possible, since the standard Window's implementations are
really bad. It's more important that the user be able to SEE and READ what I'm
presenting than to conform to other Window's applica
In my current app I'm attempting to mitigate the very small text
dialogs that appear in the Windows' version of applications by rolling
my own. Some Dialogs such as the page setup present some major
challenges to doing this, but with others it's not really much of a
problem; however, I would like
Marty,
Your concept has a lot of potential if it works fast enough, which normally
shouldn't be a problem. Should be much better than polling other activities.
Not sure how it might impact other stack activity such as arrow and command
keys.
Joe Lewis Wilkins
Architect & Director of Product Dev
What about placing everything that will be behind your dialog into a
group, then disable the group when showing the dialog and enabling it
when it closes?
Marty Knapp
Please, anyone...
In my current app I'm attempting to mitigate the very small text dialogs that appear in
the Windows' version
Thanks, Chris
I'm rethinking my entire approach to this. Probably going back to a modal stack
for some, leaving the others as fields that I move up under the Title Bar so
they appear as sheets. Maybe use some visual effect to emulate how sheets
appear. Yes, we did do some interesting things wit
Interesting thoughts, Klaus.
Thanks,
Joe Lewis Wilkins
Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI
On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
>> Please, anyone...
>> In my current app I'm attempting to mitigate the very small text dialogs
>> that appear in the
Hi Joe,
> Please, anyone...
> In my current app I'm attempting to mitigate the very small text dialogs that
> appear in the Windows' version of applications by rolling my own. Some
> Dialogs such as the page setup present some major challenges to doing this,
> but with others it's not really mu
Modal as in not being able to interact with any of the other controls on the
stack? Making a stack-sized invisible button (or lightly tinted and
transparent, even) just behind your psudo-dialog would prevent that. For
menus and other stacks, you'd have to add additional code - swap the full
menus f
Please, anyone...
In my current app I'm attempting to mitigate the very small text dialogs that
appear in the Windows' version of applications by rolling my own. Some Dialogs
such as the page setup present some major challenges to doing this, but with
others it's not really much of a problem; ho
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