Q: I'm having trouble setting the background color of a
control. It looks to me like the control color table
contains an entry for background color, but the standard
controls seem to be ignoring this entry. What should I do?
A: Unfortunately, since Mac OS 8 and the Appearance SDK were
introduced, there are many answers to this question. Without
the Appearance extension (whose functionality is built into
Mac OS 8.5 and later), controls get their background color
from the content entry of the window color table. Otherwise,
controls get their background color in a considerably more
complicated way, which is best expressed in sample code.
We've updated the "ControlBackground" sample accordingly,
and it should be appearing on the appropriate Developer CDs and FTP
sites soon.
[May 03 1999]
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