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Re: Interface and background under OS X

To: REALbasic Network Users Group <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: Interface and background under OS X
From: Seth Willits <seth at freaksw dot com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 14:03:33 -0700
On 7/30/02 1:54 PM, the NSA intercepted the following message from "James
Sentman" <james at sentman dot com>:

> If you want to have things show through the controls, then you can't
> do that, but OSX happily draws the shadows over anything you have
> underneath it without erasing the background. I did a quick little
> demo with a single call to
> 
> DrawThemeButton(btnRect, proc, newInfo, oldInfo, 0, 0, 0)

The problem is REALbasic doesn't use DrawThemeButton. Neither does Carbon
when drawing from a NIB file.


Seth Willits
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