Re: NSScroller and borders

[Jeff Teunissen]

Adam Fedor wrote:
> Jeff Teunissen wrote:
>
> > Anyway, this post is to bring up the subject of NSScrollView's default 
> > border type. From my examimations, OPENSTEP's NSScrollView has no 
> > border by default, while GNUstep's defaults to having a bezelled 
> > border. Besides being consistent with OPENSTEP, I think that it's a 
> > good idea in general for scrollviews to be unadorned by default, and 
> > if wanted it should be set.
> >
> > gnustep-gui itself will not look different if the default is changed, 
> > but there is a small problem with a few apps that don't explicitly set 
> > their border type but obviously want one (chiefly Gorm [though I have 
> > a patch for this] and GNUMail, though there are others). They look a 
> > little bit ugly until they have been patched.
>
> I suppose it would be a good idea to change this before I make the next 
> release, otherwise it could be a over a month before it's put in. People 
> will have plenty of time before the next stable gui release (about a 
> month from now) to update their apps.
>
> Do you have a patch for it?

Easy. gui/Source/NSScrollView.m, change line 144 from:

_borderType = NSBezelBorder;

to

_borderType = NSNoBorder;

I have a patch for Gorm, but my local changes also include user-interface 
modifications for a cleaner interface. I'll send a patch to the list once 
I've gotten the diffs sorted out.

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