[plt-scheme] Styling MrEd GUI components

Thanks Matthew -

That's not exactly the answer I was hoping for, but it makes a lot of sense
and I should be able to make do.

-Ben

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > What am I missing?  I'm sure it's something obvoius, but I've been
> through
> > the docs now quite a few times and I don't see anything jumping out at
> me.
>
> There's no way to control features like the color of a standard button.
> That's by design, so that the GUI library can use the current
> platform's toolbox, which has its own look-and-feel. All GUI toolboxes
> that we use accommodate a font change for a button, but sometimes not
> much else.
>
> Creating a button with a bitmap label may give you a bit more control.
> More generally, you can derive a sub-class of `canvas%' and draw
> anything as a control.
>
> Matthew
>
>


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