Re: Opacity of Menus
Re: Opacity of Menus
- Subject: Re: Opacity of Menus
- From: Keith Wilson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:55:24 +1100
Hi Russ
Many thanks for the support. I too wish that Apple would pound the
stake in. What I really need for my app is 100% opacity for menus and
that is what I would actually set as the initial user default value.
In my app the user can manipulate images and playing around with
"Enhance Contrast" is an awful proposal as far as I am concerned - I
tried it - it was ugly. If the users want to set alpha = 0.95 for
menus then let THEM choose - my bet is that none will choose less
than 100% for my app.
Keith
On 22/12/2007, at 8:12 AM, R.L. Grigg wrote:
You'll notice that Apple started out with very transparent menus and
sheets, but has moved slowly towards more and more opaqueness. Just
wish they'd just pound a stake in it already and get it over with
and go fully opaque. I've never understood why menus and sheets
should be semitrnasparent anyways, its hard on the eyes, and to use
the Accessibility contrasting to make them opauqe pretty much washes
out the color balance of the entire screen and ruins color
calibration.
Russ
On Dec 21, 2007, at 8:48 AM, John Stiles wrote:
Agreed. If you want menus and sheets to be opaque, Accessibility
has a slider that will do exactly this ("Enhance Contrast") and
will do it universally, not just for your one app. Problem solved.
Uli Kusterer wrote:
Am 21.12.2007 um 2:25 schrieb Keith Wilson:
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.
In general, what you want to do is use the ColorSync assistant (I
think there's a button in the "Monitors" PrefPane that shows it),
to calibrate your screens correctly. Particulary Gamma curve and
brightness/contrast. If you do that, not only will your graphics
display correctly in *all* applications, no, you'll actually see
the transparency Apple intended.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://www.zathras.de
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