Re: A question to the APL vendors on Windows GUIs ...

if I remember correctly (it has been more than ten years) you can easily
set any 
color on any button, untouched, before, after being pushed, anything.
There's a 
"colormap" which you can pick from e.g. the Clipboard, at your choice 16
colors, 
256 colors &c. I had an application with patterns of colors on each
buttons - 
only you need to know how to do it. (BTW I used Causeway, that was just
filling 
out tables - the famous EAT)



"aleph0" <apl68000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Second, I think we should give some credit where credit"
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> Agree , and as I originally stated, the small APL vendors have all
> done an excellent job IMO !
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> BTW... Have you tryed the A+ GUI-solution under Unix ?
> The ".s" context feels very natural .. like APL.
> No fuss, no tens of parameters that need tweaking, mostly defaults
> that get your data onto the screen in an efficient way. You can then
> use "geometry" to then tweak it around if you want.
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> Also, didn't Soliton do something along the lines of a Java (GUI-
> server) interface .
> Has anyone here used it at all ?
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> Getting back to my original question ...
> Sure the current APL GUI interfacess are excellent, but basically
> limiting one to using the STD Windows modules ...
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> Here's just a small ( some might say "unimportant" ) example.
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> Suppose you use the BCol property to set the background colour of a
> SubForm to pastel green.
> If you want to set a "Push" Button to for example a darker shade of
> green , you simply can't , you are stuck with the standard Windows
> color (e.g. grey ... or the underlying color-scheme set by the user)!
> Same applies to Tab Controls and probably a few others.
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> FWIW
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