REALbasic Tip: Adding an iTunes-like striped background to your listboxes

[Geoff Perlman <geoff at realsoftware dot com>]

With REALbasic v4.5 you can easily add a striped background to your
listboxes using the new CellBackgroundPaint event. Here's an example:

Function CellBackgroundPaint(g As Graphics, row As Integer, column As
Integer) As Boolean
   If row Mod 2=0 then
      g.foreColor=RGB(158,238,255)
   else
      g.foreColor=RGB(255,255,255)
   end if
   g.FillRect 0,0,g.width,g.height

End Function

--
Geoff Perlman
President and CEO
REAL Software, Inc.
512-328-7325 x711 (voice)
512-328-7372 (fax)


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Subject: REALbasic Tip: Getting the user's short name on Mac OS X 
From: Geoff Perlman <geoff at realsoftware dot com>
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Personalizing your software to the user can give your application a
friendlier feel. For example, welcoming the user by name when they 
launch
your application is one of those little touches that people often 
notice.
You can get the user's short name on Mac OS X easily with the following
REALbasic code:

Dim shortname as string
Shortname = PreferencesFolder.parent.parent.name

Thanks to Christian Dorn for providing this tip.
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Geoff Perlman
President and CEO
REAL Software, Inc.
512-328-7325 x711 (voice)
512-328-7372 (fax)


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