fxruby users - Sep 2006 - Change default background, maybe to a wallpaper design ?

Dear all,

I would like to change the greyish background of the FXRuby GUI.
Now, I have two questions with respect to this:
I know that I can change the color of individual buttons, toolbars
etc., but I''d like to know whether one can change this greyish default.
using something like
 
app.backColor = STD_BACK_COLOR
  
didn''t do what I want...
Now I recall that using RMagick, you generate something like a wallpaper
tapestry (e.g., repeat a logo several times on a canvas) using
commands like
 
logo = Magick::ImageList.new(''logo:'')
img = Magick::ImageList.new
img.new_image(200, 100, Magick::TextureFill.new(logo))  

as mustapha describes in his nice introductory tutorial on Rmagick
in
http://www.mustap.com/rubyzone_post_185_manipulating-images-with-rma  .
Is it possible to create such a background with RMagick and use it to
replace all that''s grey in FXRuby GUIs ?

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Axel

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On Sep 27, 2006, at 4:33 AM, Axel Etzold wrote:
> I would like to change the greyish background of the FXRuby GUI.
> Now, I have two questions with respect to this:
> I know that I can change the color of individual buttons, toolbars
> etc., but I''d like to know whether one can change this greyish  
> default.
> using something like
>
> app.backColor = STD_BACK_COLOR
>
> didn''t do what I want...
Try experimenting with the application''s base color attribute, e.g.

	app.baseColor = FXColor::PapayaWhip

Note that in order for this setting to apply to the entire  
application, you need to make this setting when the application  
object is first instantiated, and before you''ve created any other  
widgets, e.g.

	app = FXApp.new
	app.baseColor = FXColor::DeepSkyBlue1
	main = FXMainWindow.new(app, ...)
> Is it possible to create such a background with RMagick and use it to
> replace all that''s grey in FXRuby GUIs ?
Not that I know of... You might ask around on the FOX GUI list about  
this. I know that it''s been asked there before.

its possible to set the widget colors
(backColor/baseColor/hiliteColor/shadowColor/frameColor/textColor ...)
to better looking colors. i have done this for example in foxGUIb. but
it requires special tweaks for every kind of widget. sometimes it
requires even defining tricky singleton methods to achieve good
looking color schemes, but it is possible.

background images (skinning) is impossible for standard widgets in
fox. you could do it  with FXCanvas but that would require to rewrite
all the standard widgets in ruby as derivatives of FXCanvas. i
wouldn''t try that ;)

consider switching to jruby and swing. jruby is getting pretty mature
and swing is a toolkit that is well designed (compared to fox) and
fully supports skinning.

-- henon

On 9/27/06, Lyle Johnson <lyle at knology.net>
wrote:
>
> On Sep 27, 2006, at 4:33 AM, Axel Etzold wrote:
>
> > I would like to change the greyish background of the FXRuby GUI.
> > Now, I have two questions with respect to this:
> > I know that I can change the color of individual buttons, toolbars
> > etc., but I''d like to know whether one can change this
greyish
> > default.
> > using something like
> >
> > app.backColor = STD_BACK_COLOR
> >
> > didn''t do what I want...
>
> Try experimenting with the application''s base color attribute,
e.g.
>
>         app.baseColor = FXColor::PapayaWhip
>
> Note that in order for this setting to apply to the entire
> application, you need to make this setting when the application
> object is first instantiated, and before you''ve created any other
> widgets, e.g.
>
>         app = FXApp.new
>         app.baseColor = FXColor::DeepSkyBlue1
>         main = FXMainWindow.new(app, ...)
>
> > Is it possible to create such a background with RMagick and use it to
> > replace all that''s grey in FXRuby GUIs ?
>
> Not that I know of... You might ask around on the FOX GUI list about
> this. I know that it''s been asked there before.
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On 9/27/06, Meinrad Recheis <meinrad.recheis at gmail.com>
wrote:
> its possible to set the widget colors
> (backColor/baseColor/hiliteColor/shadowColor/frameColor/textColor ...)
> to better looking colors. i have done this for example in foxGUIb. but
> it requires special tweaks for every kind of widget. sometimes it
> requires even defining tricky singleton methods to achieve good
> looking color schemes, but it is possible.
>
...

here is a screenshot of a userinterface I did at my work with FXRuby.
i am going to add the style-library I built to foxGUIb if some people
are interested.
yours,
-- henon
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