On 11.03.2016 16:49, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Peter TB Brett wrote:
On 11/03/2016 01:26, Roger Guay wrote:
Sorry if I missed this in prior posts, but what happened to the Look
and Feel option in the View menu? Isn’t this a serious omission?
The "Look and Feel" options were removed from the menu bar, because it's
technically impossible to make them work the way that users would
naively expect them to work.
Specifically, LiveCode 8 uses a "native" theme by default. This
requires platform-specific libraries to be available (for example, the
OS X button is actually *drawn* by OS X, not by LiveCode, when you use
the "native" theme). OS X theming APIs are not available on Linux, and
Windows theming APIs are not available on OS X, and so on.
Enabling an OS X look and feel on Linux cannot result in the stack
looking the way it would if you were running it on OS X.
You can still set the look and feel from the message box or script.
I have to admit that as fun as the lookAndFeel property was for
mocking up a NeXT-style menu palette once, in all the years I've been
using LC I've never used that global property in anything I ship to
end-users. Most folks just want their app to look like everything else
on their system, and providing an alien-looking appearance just
confuses them.
That said, it is sometimes fun to remember what ancient OSes looked
like (the emulated options are all for things no longer in common use:
Windows 95, Mac Classic, and Motif), so I just made this plugin --
public domain for anyone who wants it:
<http://fourthworld.net/lc/4W_LookandFeel.livecode>
Great! Thanks a lot - you know me: always looking backwards!
Richmond.
Q for Peter: will Widgets like the On/Off toggle be updated to use
OS-native appearances on OS X and Android?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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