[Lazarus] visual appearance of ReadOnly state widgets

zeljko zeljko at holobit.net
Wed May 10 18:39:48 CEST 2017


On 10.05.2017 18:29, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
> On 2017-05-10 17:21, zeljko wrote:
>>> For example in fpGUI read-only widgets look visibly different.
>>> See attached animated GIF.
>> Looks pretty wrong to me. It's big difference between ReadOnly and
>> Enabled.
>
> Well, they visually indicate to the end-user the ReadOnly or Enabled
> state, without the user having to guess or do trial-and-error (try and
> change something in a widget, just to find out you can't). LCL gives no
> visual cues.

Again: it's not LCL, but widgetset (win32, qt, gtk2 etc). If widgetset 
gives some visual feedback about readonly state then LCL shows it 
exactly like it is. No more no less.

zeljko



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