Re: NSScroller, NSBrowser and some issues

[Serg Stoyan]

Hi Jeff,

> 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).

  This is what my patch does.

-- 
Serg Stoyan