[UI] Re: Fwd: Workspace backgrounds - almost there

[Bill Schwab]

I really didn't do much, so the credit belongs to OA (for doing it in
Dolphin), Gary for the overall appearance, and Andy Tween's stunning
work on Shout.  Maybe Andy can give us some advice on where to change
background colors.  I could live with its being limited to Shout
workspaces - especially if the alternative is not having anywhere ;)  
My only concern re Shout is that I typically do not use the workspace
extension, because I often use workspaces (the system window variety)
for notes more than code.

The ideal solution changes the background of workspaces in inspectors,
the debugger, browsers, and workspace system windows.  Basically,
anywhere do-it and friends are available, the background color is
appropriate.  If there is a good place to hack to get that effect, I can
certainly do it, but it seems that Squeak should be able to do this w/o
the need to edit code that is maintained by others.

It case you want to reproduce it, the color is

   Color r:1.0 g:1.0 b:230.0/255


Bill




Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
University of Florida
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>>> klaus.witzel at cobss.com 09/27/07 11:04 PM >>>
That looks great !

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:21:55 +0200, Bill Schwab wrote:

> This should do it:
>
>  http://needle.anest.ufl.edu/users/wschwab/UI-almost.png
>
> Bill
>
>
> Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
> University of Florida
> Department of Anesthesiology
> PO Box 100254
> Gainesville, FL 32610-0254
>
> Email: bschwab at anest.ufl.edu
> Tel: (352) 846-1285
> FAX: (352) 392-7029
>
>
>>>> Bill Schwab 9/25/2007 11:16:34 PM >>>
> I did some fiddling to try to reproduce the installation problems I
> had, added a reminder about the Damien's dev image to the UI swiki
page,
> downloaded it, and did an installation of Gary's widgets using
> Monitcello.  Then I moved my BibTeX helper code into the new image.  I
> appear to have made a happy mistake in the latter, capturing a change
> that I considered redundant, and ended up with more or less the visual
> changes I was trying to create, and grabbed a screenshot before I had
> time to break it :)
>
> I will probably send it to Gary as a start.  What is the proper way to
> make it available?  I suppose the easiest thing is to put it on my web
> page, but I have not yet learned how to use Linux to remotely access
our
> servers, so I can't do that right now.
>
> When it becomes available, you will notice the background color of the
> browser's and debugger's code pane.  I would hope for the debugger's
> inspector panes to be so colored also, though they currently show it
> only for the top line.  Ironically, the workspace in the image is not
> correctly colored, though a newly-created instance has the correct
> color, though, as in the debugger's inspectors, it shows the color
only
> to a point, after which the default white takes over.
>
> Again, this is not a super big deal, but I find that similar changes
> that OA made to Dolphin long ago grew on me.
>
> Bill


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