This is great!  Much cleaner!  It should be put in the base image ASAP :)

Russell


> 
> Here's a look enhancement for the Morphic scrollbars.  Basically, this
> just fixes a few things so that the scrollbars look cleaner.  The change
> set is at:
> 
> http://www.mindspring.com/~dway/smalltalk/crispScrollbars-dew.cs
> 
> This switches the scollbar buttons and scrollbar itself to have a
> borderWidth of 1 instead of 2, and the highlighting contrast for
> raised/inset border types has been increased.
> 
> Previously the highlighting was barely a shade lighter/darker, so the
> raised/inset relief was too muddy looking.  A thinner border sort of
> requires a brighter highlight anyway... I modified the raised/inset border
> drawing code so that borderWidth 1 highlights are brighter, but thicker
> borderWidths are left as they were.  (Bert's code did something like this,
> too.)  I also added the methods Color>>twiceLighter and
> Color>>twiceDarker, since there was a giant gap between Color>>lighter
> (0.833) and Color>>muchLighter (0.233), and I needed something in between
> (0.5).  (Using muchLighter/muchDarker was a little *too* sharp a
> contrast.)
> 
> Using a borderWidth of 1 has a side benefit of making the buttons appear
> larger and easier to see, without actually making the scrollbar take up
> any more space.  I guess it's partly a matter of taste, but I generally
> feel that a (raised) borderWidth of 1 is more appropriate for tiny widgets
> such as the scrollbar buttons.  For example, the buttons were previously 9
> pixels tall, and with a borderWidth of 2, that left only 5 pixels in
> height to squeeze the triangle into.  Borderwidths of 1 (instead of 2)
> have a more subtle 3-d look, too.
> 
> I reduced the black borderWidth around the scrollbar from 2 to 1.  I think
> this looks better, even with the other pane and window borders being 2
> pixels thick.  The scrollbar cannot be grabbed and resized like the panes,
> anyway, so the thickness difference is probably okay.  (Actually, I think
> the 2-pixel-thick black borders around everything are pretty nasty
> looking... perhaps they could be replaced with raised borders (like
> Bert's) at some point, without necessarily changing the color scheme of
> the windows, and keeping Squeak's colorful character :-).  A changeset for
> another time.)
> 
> I also fixed the scrollbar "shadow" so that its owner was the blue
> pagingArea, not the (black) ScrollBar.  This was causing bad highlighting
> because #inset highlighting colors are based on the owner's colors, which
> I didn't realize before.  It looks 100 times better now.
> 
> Anyway, I submit this changeset with the hope that it might be
> incorporated into the base image at some point (if there aren't too many
> complaints)... I think the base Morphic look could still use some
> tweaking, without necessarily adding a lot of look preferences.
> 
> - Doug Way
>   EAI/Transom Technogies, Ann Arbor, MI
>   dway at eai.com, dway at mat.net
>   http://www.transom.com
> 
> 
> 

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Russell Allen
russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
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