Subject : Suggestion - ElevateDB Manager Unicode - treeview

(Running in a Windows 8 virtual machine)

When the focus shifts from the treeview to a pane, such as the Tasks pane.

Currently the item that was highlighted changes color from black to near
white.

It is then not possible to read the name of the database say.

This obfuscation is very annoying.

Regards,
  Peter Evans

I have already mentioned this to Tim. See the thread "A couple of minor EDBMgr suggestions"

Here are Tim's replies:

>This is standard behavior for the TTreeView/Windows - I'm not modifying this
to make it behave that way, and the behavior is related to the focus state
of the node.<

------ next reply ----

>The issue is that the theming can cause the colors to be different depending
upon how Windows is skinned.  I'm not sure if I would be shooting someone
else in the foot by fixing the colors to a specific set of colors.<


Barry

On 13/08/2013 12:45 AM, Barry wrote:

>> I have already mentioned ...



Thank you for pointing out your initial mention of this problem. I have
now found it by searching the newsgroups.

However, I disagree with Tim's reply.
The reason is this - already there are options in the Manager to change
colours of some areas of that program. I think it would be a simple
matter to add another option. I repeat the word option.

I also believe as you seem to, that useability of the Manager is very
important.

Regards,
  Peter Evans

Peter Evans wrote:

> On 13/08/2013 12:45 AM, Barry wrote:
>
> >> I have already mentioned ...
>
>
>
> Thank you for pointing out your initial mention of this problem. I
> have now found it by searching the newsgroups.
>
> However, I disagree with Tim's reply.
> The reason is this - already there are options in the Manager to
> change colours of some areas of that program. I think it would be a
> simple matter to add another option. I repeat the word option.
>
> I also believe as you seem to, that useability of the Manager is very
> important.
>
> Regards,
>   Peter Evans

It's only a minor inconvenience. You can always swith to "Window
Classic" and it looks fine.

--
Michael Riley
GySgt USMC (Ret)
www.zilchworks.com

Barry,

<< I have already mentioned this to Tim. See the thread "A couple of minor
EDBMgr suggestions"

Here are Tim's replies: >>

I went ahead and looked at this again, and I think I can force it to black
in the custom draw handler.  The problem has something to do with focus
shifting away from the treeview during a click/selection, so that's about as
good as I can make it.  I still have to test this with the later XE+ builds,
though, to make sure that I'm not breaking anything.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Peter,

Please use the specific suggestions forum/newsgroup for these type of posts.

Thanks,

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

On 15/08/2013 1:21 AM, Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Please use the specific suggestions forum/newsgroup for these type of
> posts.

No problems.

Regards,
  Peter Evans