Re: NSTableView highlight color too dark!
Re: NSTableView highlight color too dark!
- Subject: Re: NSTableView highlight color too dark!
- From: Keith Renz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:31:51 -0400
On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 06:47 AM, Jim Correia wrote:
On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 11:28 PM, Keith Renz wrote:
It works, but I can't match the nice highlighting color NSTextView
uses. There's got to be a better way.
The better way is to stop fighting the frameworks. In 10.2 the table
highlighting scheme was changed. This is mentioned in the AppKit
release notes.
Sure, I'd love to stop "fighting the frameworks", but in this case it's
appropriate. The highlight color completely blocks most of the (subtle
and not so subtle) images in the table cells making it virtually
impossible see what you've highlighted. Lightening up the selection
highlight color helps a lot without violating the AppKit 10.2
highlighting scheme. The new scheme is for identifying the active
selection as opposed to the trail leading to the selection like in a
list view (Finder), which is a good idea.
I've also noticed that adding slight transparency (10% or so) to image
cells also lightens up the highlight color. Maybe that's a better
route, but is slows down the table drawing.
Keith
I suspect someday the finder will catch up and use the same visual
effect.
It appears that the Finder does conform to the 10.2 scheme in that list
cells leading to the selection are now gray and not the highlight
color. The Finder specifically modifies the highlight color while still
complying with the scheme, probably for the same reason in that they
didn't want to obscure the icon images.
Jim
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