OpenEuphoria

Re: [WIN] PushButtons aren't depressed when hotkeys are used

• Posted by George Henry <ghenryca at HOTMAIL.COM> Jan 21, 2001
• 436 views

Looks like my reply went directly to Derek rather than to the list.

To summarize:

On the contrary, most of the Micorsoft apps and other Windows apps on my
desktop exhibit visual depressing of buttons. Internet Explorer, M$ Works,
JASC Paint Shop Pro, Arachnophilia, all the programs I consider somwehat
useful and dependable and tend to use frequently.

The kinds of programs that fail to exhibit this behavior (and my impression
is such apps are quite rare) are "toy" freeware and cheap shareware apps.

I surely want my programs to look "professional" rather than like cheap
freeware/shareware. Unless Euphoria is and forever will be by intent just a
toy language, I urge that the UI libraries associated with it adopt a
professional look and feel, or should I say the facilities to produce such.

Eventually, I plan to get into creating skins. When that happens, I plan to
share my code. Doubtless this liebury will be integrable and compatible with
Win32Lib and/or WinMania. But don't expect anything along those lines
anytime soon; I have plenty of higher-priority work ahead of me.

Best regards to all,
George

----Original Message Follows----
From: Derek Parnell <dparnell at BIGPOND.NET.AU>
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: [WIN] PushButtons aren't depressed when hotkeys are used
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:11:23 +1100

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Henry" <ghenryca at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [WIN] PushButtons aren't depressed when hotkeys are used


[snip]
 > If anyone doubts that buttons are supposed to visually depress in Windows
 > apps, just observe the Windows Calculator in operation for a couple of
 > seconds (or less).

It seems to me that this application is an exception. All the other
Microsoft apps that I have don't show this sort of behaviour.

------
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
(Vote [1] The Cheshire Cat for Internet Mascot)

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