[VERSION 1.5.2] Command1/Text1 Enabled = False - not the expected behaviour - Bugreports and known bugs - Jabaco

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Thursday, November 17th 2011, 11:23am

Command1/Text1 Enabled = False - not the expected behaviour

Hey everybody,

when setting

	Jabaco Source
1	Command1.Enabled = False

the caption is not greyed out!
It just does not look right at runtime.
It is fine at designtime though.

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1	Text1.enabled = False

does not seem to change anything.
It should be greyed out and locked!

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Sunday, November 20th 2011, 5:08pm

RE: Command1/Text1 Enabled = False - not the expected behaviour

Quoted from "Dani"
when setting
Jabaco Source
1
Command1.Enabled = False
the caption is not greyed out!
It just does not look right at runtime.
It is fine at designtime though.

Disable the CommandButton works fine for me.
I have no problems with enable and disable it.

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Text1.enabled = False
does not seem to change anything.
It should be greyed out and locked!

Thanks for the info.
Bug is now fixed:
[ http://code.google.com/p/jabacoframework/source/detail?r=87 ]
[ Jabaco-rev87.jar ]

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Sunday, November 20th 2011, 7:45pm

Thanks a lot theuserbl,

for constantly updating the framework :thumbsup:

I still did not give it a try myselfe :whistling:

the problem I am facing here:

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when setting
Jabaco Source
1
Command1.Enabled = False
the caption is not greyed out!
It just does not look right at runtime.
It is fine at designtime though.

is not a malfunction. It is the looks! In my LAF environment the disabled Command Botton changes to the disabled look
BUT it's caption stays black (the 'enabled = True' appearence)!
Here is a picture of what I mean:

In the background you can see what it looks like at designtime and what it should look like at runtime.

Thanks again,

Dani

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Sunday, November 20th 2011, 8:15pm

Quoted from "Dani"

is not a malfunction. It is the looks! In my LAF environment the disabled Command Botton changes to the disabled look BUT it's caption stays black (the 'enabled = True' appearence)!

Is it wrong?
I can change it, but I think it is the normal Java SystemLookAndFeel for Windows. So it should like to look like WindowsXP disable-buttons.
The program at runtime looks also as WinXP and that in the designmode as Win2k.
If you want, you can also at runtime use an different LookAndFeel.

For example go click on the right top tree on "Project" and then in the Properties where "JVM Options" stand write

	Source code
1	-Dswing.systemlaf=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel

or

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1	-Dswing.systemlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel

or

	Source code
1	-Dswing.systemlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel

At best it have to look with all LookAndFeels good.

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Sunday, November 20th 2011, 8:24pm

Hmmm.. have again looked at it.
The Caption color is set with ForeColor:

	Source code
1	Command1.ForeColor

So I have to say, what an disabled button have to look like.
How solved VB6 this problem?
I can mix the ForeColor with white or black or gray. Or set it per default to gray. And which gray color? #808080 ?

Don't know.

Or is it better to input a new Property called ForeColorDisabled or so?
And hopw to call it? ForeColorDisabled? DisabledForeColor ? ForeDisabledColor ? DisabledColor ?

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Sunday, November 20th 2011, 9:34pm

What you are saying makes sense!

All the controls that have a caption their ForeColor stays black when enabled = False.

So I guess it is meant to be that way. It just did not look right to me.
Kind of like I could push it but then I can't!
Oh well...
VB6 it is the way I described it. The color is &H80000010& on my system and I would probably call it ForeColorDisabled.
But now I don't know if it really makes sense to add a property. You would have to do thid fr the other controls too.

I was not aware of the possibility to use different LookAndFeel options. Very interesting and a bit scary ...
Its not easy to predict the outcome.
Do you know if there is any Mac OS LAF to be able to simulate the LookAndFeel outcome of the Mac on my development environment?
The Tabstrip for example behaves different on the Mac.

Personally I would rather like to see energy spent on other things:
It would be great to be able to add an image to the JBGrid header to accomplish a ColSortIndicator. (Or maybe even only the possibility to change the BackColor of a single ColumnHeader)
I know we can use the Jtable directly. Still it would be nice.
The Jtable ColSortIndicator is bound to the AutoSort property. Since I am sorting the underlying SQL it would be nice to be able to set a ColSortIndicator(Up/Down) with a simple property.
I don't know Java well enough to do this myself. But this would definitely be a nice feature.

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Sunday, November 20th 2011, 9:42pm

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How solved VB6 this problem?
I can mix the ForeColor with white or black or gray. Or set it per default to gray. And which gray color? #808080 ?

it looks like grey is mixed with white in VB!

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Sunday, November 20th 2011, 11:12pm

Quoted from "Dani"

it looks like grey is mixed with white in VB!

It looks more like an "emboss-effect". So not only a changed color.

Have myself tried out to create something in Visual Basic Express 2008.

In this screenshot

in every row is the same ForeColor. And in the first colum all are enabled and in the second are disabled.
I have created one window where every background is green and one, where every background is red. The Background of the buttons don't changed.
As you see, for the enabled buttons the BackColor have no effect.
And for the disabled buttons the background of it is always white and for the foreground is used a darken BackColor.

And in this screenshot

I have changed the BackColor of the buttons insetead of the ForeColor.
In this case, the Captions text is a darken BackColor of the button background.

I think, that this behaviour is very Windows-typical. And I don't know if it looks nice on Applications with an different LookAndFeel then the WindowsLookAndFeel.

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Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 3:33pm

Hey there theuserbl,

I had to come back to this!
I simply do not like the 'DisabledForeColor' so I did some more testing...

As you can see when we are working with a JLabel compared to JBLabel in the disabled state the foreground is greyed out.
But as soon as I pass a foreground color this color is also used when the control is disabled. So that is pretty much what you described above.
Still the default Java setting for a disabled control has a different foreground color.
When I outcomment the foreground property setting in the CommandButton.jsrc and then set a Command1.Enabled = False it changes its forecolor to grey of some sort!

That is actually the case with some other controls

But not all of them!
Frames change the forecolor even though they have the same foreground property.
I wonder why? Do you have any clou?

Do you think this is worth dealing with?
I have added a

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1 2	Public Property Let ForeColor(v As Long) If v = -2147483630 Then Exit Sub

to my project but of course thats only my systems color...

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Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 5:38pm

Havn't much time at the moment.

But I want to say, that colors are everytime a problem in Jabaco.

For example the background of an RichTextBox and TextBox are on Windows white. On Linux it is in Jabaco-programs gray.
The default background of such an control in Java is on Linux white, too.

The reason is, that Jabaco uses for the background the java.awt.SystemColor.window, which is on Windows white and Linux gray.
The result is, that if I change the LookAndFeel of the Jabaco-program to Metal, the same program differes in color on Windows and Linux.

At
[ http://code.google.com/p/jabacoframework…nformation.java ]
are the negative numbers, which represent the system-colors of Jabaco.
The default colors for every control is defined in the file Jabaco.xml in the Jabaco-directory.

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I have added a
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1
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Public Property Let ForeColor(v As Long)
If v = -2147483630 Then Exit Sub
to my project but of course thats only my systems color...

I would prefer, if Manual would add a System color called "Nothing" or "None", so that this happens, that no color will be set.
And I would prefer, if for all controls as default the "Nothing" or "None" would be set.

An additional problem ist, that the VB6-names of the System-color only exists in the IDE.
Desktop, Title.Active.Background, Title.Active.Foreground, Title.Inactive.Background, Title.Inactive.Foreground, Window.Background, Windows.Foreground, etc. are all only existing in the Jabco-IDE.

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Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 6:58pm

Hey there theuserbl,

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The default colors for every control is defined in the file Jabaco.xml in the Jabaco-directory.

that is a great tip I did not know. Thanks!

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I would prefer, if Manual would add a System color called "Nothing" or "None", so that this happens, that no color will be set.
And I would prefer, if for all controls as default the "Nothing" or "None" would be set.

...exactly my thoughts! I started playing with that...
I think that would be a good and flexible approach.
If a user wants to set a different color, no problem, the forecolor property is already there.
And of course you can already use it to set a different color for enabled=False.
There are always ways to work around these issues but it is not very efifcient.

Well, I guess we will have to wait some more then...

Thanks for now,

Dani

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Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 7:55pm

Quoted from "Dani"

Hey there theuserbl,

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The default colors for every control is defined in the file Jabaco.xml in the Jabaco-directory.

that is a great tip I did not know. Thanks!

This behavier makes also problems.
If it is not defined there, then in an enumeration the first one will be used and for number the 0 will be used.
Thats the reason why I begoin in the Anchor property with TopLeft. To have that as default.

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I would prefer, if Manual would add a System color called "Nothing" or "None", so that this happens, that no color will be set.
And I would prefer, if for all controls as default the "Nothing" or "None" would be set.

...exactly my thoughts! I started playing with that...

Possibly it helps you to have the numbers behind the System colors:

In Visual Basic 6:

Source code

Scroll Bars             = &H80000000& = -2147483648
Desktop                 = &H80000001& = -2147483647
Active Title Bar        = &H80000002& = -2147483646
Inactive Title Bar      = &H80000003& = -2147483645
Menu Bar                = &H80000004& = -2147483644
Window Background       = &H80000005& = -2147483643
Window Frame            = &H80000006& = -2147483642
Menu Text               = &H80000007& = -2147483641
Window Text             = &H80000008& = -2147483640
Active Title Bar Text   = &H80000009& = -2147483639
Active Border           = &H8000000A& = -2147483638
Inactive Border         = &H8000000B& = -2147483637
Application Workspace   = &H8000000C& = -2147483636
Highlight               = &H8000000D& = -2147483635
Highlight Text          = &H8000000E& = -2147483634
Button Face             = &H8000000F& = -2147483633
Button Shadow           = &H80000010& = -2147483632
Disabled Text           = &H80000011& = -2147483631
Button Text             = &H80000012& = -2147483630
Inactive Title Bar Text = &H80000013& = -2147483629
Button Highlight        = &H80000014& = -2147483628
Button Dark Shadow      = &H80000015& = -2147483627
Button Light Shadow     = &H80000016& = -2147483626
ToolTip Text            = &H80000017& = -2147483625
ToolTip                 = &H80000018& = -2147483624

In Jabaco:

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Desktop                  = -2147483647
Title.Active.Backcolor   = -2147483646
Title.Active.Forecolor   = -2147483639
Title.Inactive.Backcolor = -2147483645
Title.Inactive.Forecolor = -2147483629
Window.Backcolor         = -2147483643
Window.Forecolor         = -2147483640
Window.Border            = -2147483642
Control.Backcolor        = -2147483633
Control.Forecolor        = -2147483630
Control.Disabled         = -2147483631
Border.Active            = -2147483638
Border.Inactive          = -2147483637
Shadow.Dark              = -2147483627
Shadow.Light             = -2147483626
Selection.Backcolor      = -2147483635
Selection.Forecolor      = -2147483634
Menu.Backcolor           = -2147483644
Menu.ForeColor           = -2147483641
Tooltip.Backcolor        = -2147483624
Tooltip.Forecolor        = -2147483625

In VB.NET all Systems Colors are in System.Drawing.SystemColors
For example System.Drawing.SystemColors.Desktop
But in VB.NET it returns a Color not a number.

Only for information

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Wednesday, December 5th 2012, 8:23pm

Only wanted to say, that the number -1 for no color would nice.

But if you set it as default, it have to be in the XML-file set.

And I am unsure, if it is a good idea, tpo say, that people have not only replacing Jabaco.jar with a newer one, they have also replace the xml-file.
And in the xml-file Jabaco saves settings, like the last opend files. If the xml-file will be replaced, the list of the last opend files are lost.

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