Re: Opacity of Menus
Re: Opacity of Menus
- Subject: Re: Opacity of Menus
- From: William Turner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:24:09 -0800
If the issue is visual accessibility, your customers (or anyone who
has such concerns) can use the Universal Access section of System
Preferences to control contrast or even switch to White on Black. This
provides a "Universal" experience - maintaining a consistent look and
feel across every application, without need for customizing context
menus within an application.
I use it myself, on those long days of staring at the screen...
Wil
On Dec 20, 2007, at 7:05 PM, Keith Wilson wrote:
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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