karlg@runx.oz.au (Karl Goiser) (06/27/91)
Hi Mac programmers! Just a quick question for which there should be a quick answer!! When you select an icon in the finder when using a colour monitor, it is displayed dimmed. How can this be done in a program? Thanks for any help. By the way, isn't it interesting that us English spelling people around the world are forced to program using the words color and hilite. And if this isn't bad enough, we've now got to put up with Behaviors in MacApp 3!!! Yours, Karl Goiser karlg@runx.oz.au -- -------------------------------------- Karl Goiser karlg@runxtsa.runx.oz
dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) (06/29/91)
In article <1991Jun27.125004.19449@runx.oz.au> karlg@runx.oz.au (Karl Goiser) writes: >the world are forced to program using the words color and hilite. And if >this isn't bad enough, we've now got to put up with Behaviors in MacApp 3!!! Color and behavior you can blame on us Yanks (though you're perfectly welcome to use some other nationality of computer if you don't like them :-)), but "hilite" is no more proper Over Here than Over There. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner
zben@ni.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) (06/29/91)
In article <1991Jun27.125004.19449@runx.oz.au> karlg@runx.oz.au (Karl Goiser) writes: > the world are forced to program using the words color and hilite. And if > this isn't bad enough, we've now got to put up with Behaviors in MacApp 3!!! In article <1991Jun28.174637.7902@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: > Color and behavior you can blame on us Yanks (though you're perfectly welcome > to use some other nationality of computer if you don't like them :-)), but > "hilite" is no more proper Over Here than Over There. I think you can blame Jim Backus (head of team that developed Fortran in the 1950s) for our tendancy to shorten names to 6 characters. The language was developed for an IBM 7094 computer that stored 6 6-bit characters in each of its 36 bit words...