Bug 19728

Summary:

[Workbench] Disabled toolbar button images hard to see

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Ron Baldwin <bogofilter+eclipse.org>

Component:

Assignee:

Linda Watson <lindawat>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

n.a.edgar

Version:

2.0

Keywords:

investigate

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows 2000

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

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Description Ron Baldwin

2002-06-09 03:17:47 EDT

Disabled toolbar buttons are hard to see when using the Windows standard gray
color scheme, and can be almost invisible when using other color schemes.  This
can be resolved by using system colors to draw the disabled images (instead of
hardwiring to gray), and using the chiseled 3-D look that is standard to
disabled toolbar buttons under Windows.

Comment 1 Nick Edgar

2002-06-10 23:11:04 EDT

Which ones in particular do you have problems with?
We do have artist-drawn disabled images in many cases.

Comment 2 Ron Baldwin

2002-06-11 00:43:20 EDT

Created attachment 1349 [details]
screenshot

Comment 3 Ron Baldwin

2002-06-11 00:58:08 EDT

See the attachment for examples of two different color schemes where disabled
buttons are all but invisible.  Note that it isn't specific buttons; *any*
button that is disabled does not show up well.

Is there a rational for departing from the Windows standard of displaying
disabled buttons using a chisled look and system highlight/shadow colors?  Doing
this would completely solve the problem and may be relatively easy to do (i.e.
not require drawing new icons).  Try using the existing disabled icon, blit it
once as button highlight, then blit another offset one pixel up and to the left
as button shadow.

Comment 4 Nick Edgar

2002-06-11 01:04:35 EDT

Could not view attachment.  Tried saving as .gif, .bmp and .jpg with no luck.

Comment 5 Ron Baldwin

2002-06-11 13:36:13 EDT

The attachment is a zip file containing a bmp file.  I zipped it because it was
1.5MB and zipping it reduced it to 34K.  I would have attached a png, but my
graphic progam was GPFing on me at the time.  Sorry about that.

Comment 6 Nick Edgar

2002-06-21 15:04:08 EDT

To address post 2.0.

Comment 7 Randy Giffen

2002-08-12 10:51:35 EDT

Reopened for investigation

Comment 8 Nick Edgar

2003-02-11 11:55:47 EST

Linda, could you please comment on this issue?

Comment 9 Linda Watson

2004-12-28 13:34:43 EST

I'm closing this bug re the new icon style and disabled state introduced in 
3.0.