Re: Bug with Restart button using a background image
Re: Bug with Restart button using a background image
- Subject: Re: Bug with Restart button using a background image
- From: Ted Thibodeau Jr <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:21:44 -0500
* Matt DeFoor [2004/12/14 08:54 AM -0500] wrote:
> The Apple engineers don't seem to think its a bug. Working as
> designed, they say. The incident was closed:
>
>
> 13-Dec-2004 09:00 PM Jeff Lemas:
> Engineering has determined that this issue behaves as intended
> based on the following information:
> Only disabled buttons are disabled.
>
> Incident number is: 3904451
I can't review your bug, so far as I can tell.
But I think that perhaps it wasn't reported in such fashion as
to clearly express the issue -- that it renders with that white
rectangle around it, obscuring the background graphic.
You're not asking for the BUTTON to be transparent, but the
SURROUNDING RECTANGLE. Their response covers the BUTTON.
This looks like a simple NIB design error, and should be resolved
with a layer shift or a transparency adjustment.
See this, too, for more technical insight --
At 10:11 PM +0100 2004/12/03, Stéphane Sudre wrote:
> The problem is coming from the fact that the Restart button
> (NSButton) is not within the Background Image (IFBackgroundImage)
> but over it.
>
> Since Cocoa does not handle view overlapping correctly in some
> cases (for optimization reasons), the NSButton can't render the
> background correctly.
>
> One solution could be to embed the Restart button within the
> Background Image view.
If I understand the above correctly, I would suggest making your
background blue larger -- so it fills the entire Installer window,
or at least extends to the bottom of the window. This would not
require that the entire graphic be *blue*, just that it be *there*,
in order that the Restart button be found "within" it....
I would suggest restating your BUG report --
The RESTART button is drawn with a surrounding white
rectangle, which obscures the Background Image.
[A workaround exists, by making the Background larger.]
The RESTART button need not be disabled, but as it is the
pulsation which apparently causes the rendering issue, it
may suffice to make this a configurable option.
I would also include your screenshot evidence, with a thick
red circle drawn around the problematic render, and optimally
with a mockup of `what it should look like`....
Be seeing you,
Ted
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