[kepler-dev] background color

[Aaron Schultz]

Would be great to be compatible with Ptolemy, Chad and David are working 
on the new configuration system
Hopefully a proper change can be worked in with that effort.

For now I changed the hard coded background color in KeplerGraphFrame 
back to white.

Aaron

Christopher Brooks wrote:
> The best way would be to take a look at 
> ptolemy/actor/gui/ConfigurationApplication.java
> and take the code that finds the configuration, then finds the 
> PtolemyPreferences
> attribute and then sets the background parameter.
>
> This would need to be done in the Kepler class that brings up the 
> application.
> Offhand, I'm not sure what that would be.
>
> The reason this is best is because it avoid duplicating Ptolemy classes
> and uses the way that Ptolemy sets the background, so a struggle between
> PtolemyPreferences setting the background and the change to 
> KeplerGraphTableau
> is avoided.
>
> _Christopher
>
> Matt Jones wrote:
>> Yeah, this has been bugging me too.  Lets change the background back
>> to the white background that we designed for the Kepler UI.  Anyone
>> know who made this UI change?  Can you change it back please?
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Christopher 
>> Brooks<cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi Norbert,
>>> In Ptolemy, drag in a LocalPreferences attribute from Utilities.
>>> Then set the Background color.
>>>
>>> It appears that Kepler does not have LocalPreferences in the list
>>> of attributes, so I did Tools->Instantiate Attribute and then
>>> entered ptolemy.actor.gui.PtolemyPreferences
>>>
>>> When I hacked in the -printPDF facility, I added some code that
>>> sets the background, see for example
>>> ptolemy.actor.gui.ConfigurationApplication.
>>>
>>> The place where PtolemyPreferences is used to set the background is in
>>> ptolemy.vergil.basic.BasicGraphFrame
>>>
>>> _Christopher
>>>
>>> Podhorszki, Norbert wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Where can I set the GUI's background back to white?
>>>> After years of making nice screenshots for (white bg) papers and 
>>>> slides, I
>>>> just cannot stand the current gray background.
>>>>
>>>> There is a gray background color defined in
>>>>  gui/src/org/kepler/gui/frame/KeplerGraphTableau.java
>>>> but that seems to control only some empty areas and the toolbox.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Norbert
>>>>
>>>>  Norbert Podhorszki
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>>>>
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