Re: [platform-swt-dev] Setting the button background color underwindows

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Niraj,

is this still a limitation with Windows 8 or Windows 10? I do not have
Windows installed somewhere but I think a customer of mine was using a
different Windows theme and IIRC the button background was changed.

Best regards, Lars

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Niraj Modi <niraj.modi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> There's a known limitation with Windows native push buttons, they don't
> honor colors.. be it foreground or background.
> This problem was already discussed/investigated in bugs
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23837and
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36055#c1
>
> Regards,
> Niraj Modi
>
>
> From:        Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date:        09/09/2015 03:28 PM
> Subject:        Re: [platform-swt-dev] Setting the button background color
> under        windows
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> Hi Tom,
>
> I'm aware of the other limitations but I think having the option to
> set the background color would already been a big improvement. For
> example the dark theme under Linux looks IMHO way better than it does
> look on Windows.
>
> For tables / tree we have NatTable (which would work fine for the
> customer) and for the scrollbar there is a custom scrollbar from Frank
> Apple which would solve the need of the customer.
>
> Best regards, Lars
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Tom Schindl
> <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It's not only button:
>> * Table/Tree-Header
>> * Scrollbar
>> * Menu (including Font-Size, Color, ...)
>>
>> Other stuff:
>> * Gradients (most important Background - and no the current image
>>   workaround does not count)
>> * Paddings
>> * Overlays (solved partially only as of today)
>>
>> come to my mind immediately - if you ask me SWT should do a Qt port
>> which is already cross-platform (including mobile devices like iOS &
>> Android)!
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On 09.09.15 10:51, Lars Vogel wrote:
>>> Dear friends of SWT,
>>>
>>> I just returned from a customer workshop in which the customer was
>>> selecting his new primary development platform. SWT was compared
>>> against QT and JavaFX. One of the key missing features in SWT was the
>>> missing styling support, compared to the other solutions.
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to support setting the background color for
>>> button also under Windows? I created Bug 476942 for that, as I was
>>> unable to find an existing one.
>>>
>>> Best regards, Lars
>>>
>>
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