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Tab Button

Post by tellboy » Fri Mar 07, 2014 3:29 pm

When you have a tab button and you select a tab.

The tab has a dark grey background with the text colour black.

I know the LC interface is emulated and not native but could Runrev not emulate the Mac interface correctly.

A highlighted tab on mac has white text NOT black.
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Re: Tab Button

Post by Klaus » Fri Mar 07, 2014 4:00 pm

Hi tellboy,

yes, sure, and that also applies to list fields!

But there is light at the horizon, LC version 6.7 will finally use Cocoa on OS X,
which will hopefully remove all these current little inconveniences and the need
of emulating native controls :D


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Re: Tab Button

Post by tellboy » Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:12 pm

Klaus wrote:But there is light at the horizon, LC version 6.7 will finally use Cocoa on OS X,
which will hopefully remove all these current little inconveniences and the need
of emulating native controls
Will LC from version 6.7 use native Cocoa controls or will they still be emulated?

On reading the stretch goals it is not clear to me what RunRev mean when they say use "Cocoa".

Is there a full definition of what the stretch goal "Cocoa" entails.

e.g.

1. Text Fields
2. Buttons
3. Tables
etc

or just it just mean the event processing?

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Re: Tab Button

Post by Klaus » Sun Mar 09, 2014 6:10 pm

Hi Terry,

I don't know, I'm just a user of LC 8)


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Re: Tab Button

Post by tellboy » Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:03 pm

These little inconveniences, not providing emulated controls that match those in the actual OS, will not be resolved by the Cocoa Port.

Following the Cocoa Port the OSX interface will remain emulated.

Using native controls is not part of the port.

See this thread for more information.

http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=18504


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Re: Tab Button

Post by Klaus » Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:22 pm

Yep, too bad! :?

But I just made an enhancement request to get at least WHITE selected text in a list field and TAB buttons:
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11912

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