chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) (03/29/91)
If you create a frame, its edges and title bar, as well as any contained
panels and canvases (canvi?) are correctly rendered with the user-selected
foreground and background colors. However, the interior of the frame remains
a stark black and white.
This is no problem if your subwindows completely tile the frame. However,
if you have a few windows which do not touch, you wind up with a miserable
white stripe between the windows. I happend to have two canvi with a four
pixel margin between them, and the harsh white stripe looks terrible.
My current hack is to create a narrow panel, 4 pixels high and 600 pixels
wide, to fill the gap with the correct color. I have been unsuccessful in
getting a handle on this interior space so I can give it a correct color map.
Does anyone know how to change the interior color of the frame, without
affecting subsequently created child windows and subframes.
As an aside to the OW group at Sun, I think the frame interior should be
painted with the default background color, not white, which would make life
much easier all around.
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