[XForms] Setting FL_CHOICE colors.

[Angus Leeming]

On Monday 21 June 2004 7:56 pm, jason cipriani wrote:
> To subscribers of the xforms list
>
>
> How do you set the color of the text of the items in the dropdown
> box that appears when you click on an FL_NORMAL_CHOICE2?
>
> The color of the label, and the color of the title in this dropdown
> box is obj->lcolor. The color of the text inside the choice box is
> obj->col2. But I can't figure out which one is the color of the
> items in the box.

Jason,

the list is a popup. (See xpopup.c.) The code used to draw it in 
choice.c is to be found in do_pup.

Anyway, I think the magic line of code you're looking for is to be 
found about line 120 in xpopup.c:

static FL_COLOR pupcolor = FL_COL1, puptcolor = FL_BLACK;

Followed by line 480:
void
fl_setpup_default_color(FL_COLOR fg, FL_COLOR bg)
{
    pupcolor = fg;
    puptcolor = bg;
}

> Also, the color of the text in a browser is obj->lcolor, yet the
> style of the text in the browser is not obj->lstyle/obj->lsize.
> This is both inconsistent with itself and with FL_CHOICE, where the
> text color is obj->col2. This is all undocumented. Does anybody
> know why this is so patchy?

I suspect it is because the original driving force behind the code 
development was waning somewhat by the time these widgets came to be 
written.

Hope this helps,
Angus