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

[Gary Chambers]

These things are tricky. I support, in Widgets, an overridable
#initialColorInSystemWindow: method. Sadly the shout editor is embedded in
an alignment morph so it is hard to driectly target the colour to the shout
morph without having a blanket colour for all alignments say.

Also, the initial colour gets overriden by the theme for lists...

I think the safest option for you, for the moment, is to extend the instance
side of PluggableShoutMorph with the following:

defaultColor
	"Answer the default colour for shout morphs."

	^Color r: 255 g: 255 b: 230 range: 255

Hope this helps...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of 
> Bill Schwab
> Sent: 30 September 2007 4:48 pm
> To: ui at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [UI] Re: Fwd: Workspace backgrounds - almost there
> 
> 
> 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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