<pre>You could draw/animate your own green button using the drawing toolkit. sort of like this 1-d scatter thingy ; make new widget'scatter-chart%' ;; do this all in Pretty Big language (DrScheme only) (define scatter-chart% (class pane% () (init-field parent) ; Make the drawing area (super-instantiate () (parent parent) ; instantiate this FIRST [min-width 100] [stretchable-width #f] (min-height 200) [stretchable-height #f]) ;; internal data (define list-of-points '()) ;; start with empty list (define canvas (new canvas% [parent this] (paint-callback (lambda (canvas dc) (draw-chart))) [min-width 100] [stretchable-width #f] [min-height 200] [stretchable-height #f] )) (define dc (send canvas get-dc)) ; Get the canvas's drawing context ; Make some pens and brushes for use later (define no-pen (make-object pen% "BLACK" 1 'transparent)) (define blue-brush (make-object brush% "BLUE" 'solid)) (define yellow-brush (make-object brush% "YELLOW" 'solid)) ;; public methods ;; add-point : new-point (define/public (add-point new-point) (set! list-of-points (cons new-point list-of-points)) ;; add to the list (send dc draw-rectangle 0 new-point 200 1)) ;; and draw the line ;; draw-chart : draw a chart based on the list of integers supplied ;; see <a href="http://download.plt-scheme.org/doc/371/html/mred/mred-Z-H-397.html" target="_blank">http://download.plt-scheme.org/doc/371/html/mred/mred-Z-H-397.html</a> (define/public (draw-chart) (send dc set-pen no-pen) (send dc set-brush blue-brush) (send dc draw-rectangle 0 0 100 200) ; big blue rectangle (send dc set-brush yellow-brush) (map (lambda (y) (send dc draw-rectangle 0 y 200 1)) ; draw a line for each integer. list-of-points )) (draw-chart))) ; draw it for the first time when this class is instantiated ; Make a frame (define frame (new frame% [label "scatter-chart% Example"] [width 100] [height 200])) ; Show the frame (send frame show #t) ; Wait a second to let the window get ready ;(sleep/yield 1) (define new-my-widget (new scatter-chart% (parent frame) )) ; instantiate the widget in the frame (define new-his-widget (new scatter-chart% (parent frame) )) ; make another one (send new-my-widget draw-chart) ; Draw the face (define (go) (map (lambda (y) (send new-my-widget add-point y) ; add a point at a time (sleep/yield 0.05)) ; draw it slowly '(10 30 22 77 78 79 17 65 97 54 55 56 57 91 33 55 95 99 125 155 157 159 188 187 186 191))) ;; list of datapoints (go) ;; !!!</pre> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Ben Simon <<a href="mailto:benjisimon@gmail.com" target="_blank">benjisimon@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Matthew Flatt <<a href="mailto:mflatt@cs.utah.edu" target="_blank">mflatt@cs.utah.edu</a>> wrote: </div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div>At Sun, 9 Mar 2008 23:45:03 -0400, "Ben Simon" wrote: > How do I style MrEd components? That is, how could I make a button red, or a > border green?  I see where I can make use of different fonts, but that's > about all I see in terms of controlling the Look & Feel of the components. </div>[...useful comments trimmed]</div></blockquote><div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> </div>More generally, you can derive a sub-class of `canvas%' and draw anything as a control. </blockquote> </div>There doesn't happen to be a way to use this approach, and somehow embed a container like a vertical-panel% in the resulting canvas%, is there? The idea being that I might make a component that uses a canvas to draw a green border, and then embed other GUI components (say, a series of buttons) in this newly drawn area. I've poked around the docs and don't see a way to do it, but I thought I should get confirmation from the pros. -Ben </div> -- Have an idea for software? 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