Re: NSScroller, NSBrowser and some issues

[Jeff Teunissen]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 12:48  pm, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> 
> > Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> >
> >> On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 10:30  am, Serg Stoyan wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Adam,

[snip]

> >>>> I didn't apply this patch, mostly because I kind of like the solid
> >>>> background, although I could be convined otherwise. Does anyone
> >>>> else have a preference?
> >>>
> >>>   Tastes differ... I like OPENSTEP look of NSScroller.
> >>
> >> I think we should stick to policy of having a NeXTstep look ... and
> >> use NSInterfaceStyle where people want alternatives.  So a patch to
> >> support an interface style which gives a stippled scroller background
> >> ought to be admissable IMO.
> >
> > The NeXTstep look _is_ stippled. :)
> 
> I'll take your word for it ... I no longer have a NeXTstep system since
> the hardware I used for it died.  It didn't *look* stippled to me as far
> as I can remember, but I had a lower quality display back then and it
> could just have looked like a solid grey because of that.

On my (24bpp, so it's not a color depth thing) OPENSTEP 4.2/Intel machine,
the scroller well is filled with a checkerboard pattern composed of single
pixels that alternate between 1/3 and 2/3 intensity (AKA darkGrayColor and
lightGrayColor), starting with 2/3 intensity at the top left, with a
lightGrayColor 1-pixel interior border.

It's not a thoroughly big deal, but that's the way it's drawn. :)

It looks like the attached shot (selection captured with Grab and scaled
up by a factor of six).

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