Re: FVWM: Flat buttons on raised title

From: JOHN MARTINSON <tea.rex_at_home.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 21:20:23 -0700

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Neil Bird wrote:

> Tim Phipps wrote:
> > It can't be done. The titlebar doesn't go under the buttons, it stops
> > where they start. A hacky way to get the look would be to remove the
> > relief pixels between the raised titlebar and raised buttons (a bit like
> > HiddenHandles for BorderStyle). I don't know what you would call this
> > either.
>
> I suspected as much; it also shows up when one tries to have a pixmap
> tile on the titlebar. Buttons will inherit this property as a background,
> but restart the tiling each time, making most XPMs look most dodgy.
> Ideally, ButtonStyle UseTitleStyle would cause the titlebar to draw its
> background (3D/pixmap/etc.) across the button area, so that tiled pixmaps
> are only tiled 'once'.
>
> Then, though, you have the problem of coping with title text placement,
> and possibly mixtures of buttons that do usetitletyle and those that don't
> (although you could insist that all such buttons would supply their own
> b/g which would overwrite the title stuff underneath them, which I think
> is always the case anyway).
>
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