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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.
Which ones in particular do you have problems with? We do have artist-drawn disabled images in many cases.
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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.
Could not view attachment. Tried saving as .gif, .bmp and .jpg with no luck.
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.
To address post 2.0.
Reopened for investigation
Linda, could you please comment on this issue?
I'm closing this bug re the new icon style and disabled state introduced in 3.0.
