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Re: Opacity of Menus


  • Subject: Re: Opacity of Menus
  • From: Keith Wilson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:05:25 +1100

I want to give my customers the choice of how THEY want their screen to look and feel - if they want context menu opacity = 0.95, 1.00 or whatever... then they should be allowed to set their own preference.

But at the moment I do not have the tools to do this for contextual pop-up menus.

Keith



On 21/12/2007, at 1:52 PM, John Stiles wrote:

Why exactly is this more pertinent to your particular application than, say, Microsoft Word or Photoshop, where the sheets and menus look like a regular app?

Making your app different than a regular app is never a good thing, not for you or your customers.

Now, if you wanted to design some sort of hack that made all sheets and menus for every application opaque, at least things would be consistent :)


Keith Wilson wrote:
Apple has done something bad. A substantial number of my customers belong to "the older and wiser" generation and they do not all still have 20/20 vision so they need the screen to be crisp and clear. I expect that Apple will sooner or later fix this problem by exposing the alpha component of context menus to us developers but in the meantime I need a fix, which is what I'm looking for on this forum.

Keith


On 21/12/2007, at 12:15 PM, Michael Watson wrote:

I'd rather not see developers make sheets and menus inconsistent. I don't think Apple's done anything bad here by not exposing this to you directly.

If you and your customers have a problem with standard system-wide interface practices, you should all file issues with Apple instead of wrenching the UI into something out of place for your application.


-- m-s

On 20 Dec, 2007, at 19:21, Keith Wilson wrote:

PS: It would be so nice if Mr Apple man would let us programmers set the opacity without having to go through the tradesmen's entrance, but c'est la vie, .... where there is a will there must be a way.


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