Re: FVWM: picky picky : shadow/hilight colors

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 20:07:55 +0100

On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 05:33:44PM +0000, Tim Phipps wrote:
> Dominik Vogt wrote:
> >
> > If someone could come up with an algorithm that duplicates the CDE
> > shadow/hilight colour calculations this would be very welcome.
> > CDE's algo is quite clever and you can see that a lot of know-how
> > went into it.
> >
> What I would really like is for someone who knows Motif/CDE to write an
> app that can tell fvwm what pixels CDE is using for its colorsets. That
> way we would get access to the relief calculations and integration with
> the CDE themes. The app wouldn't even have to map its window, just
> create it, use XmGetShadowColors() and then tell fvwm about it. Same
> goes for KDE and Gnome.

As far as I know CDE even adapts the actual colours it uses to your
display hardware. That is why CDE's colours look the same regardless
of the machine you have. This is far beyond everything we tried to
code yet.

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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Received on Fri Dec 17 1999 - 13:08:50 GMT

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