CyphersTECH Consulting » bugs http://www.cypherstech.com turning possibilities in to realities Sun, 16 May 2010 15:29:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 REALbasic and Snow Leopard: Redraw what?! http://www.cypherstech.com/2010/01/realbasic-and-snow-leopard-redraw-what/ http://www.cypherstech.com/2010/01/realbasic-and-snow-leopard-redraw-what/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:15:35 +0000 Anthony G. Cyphers http://www.cypherstech.com/?p=746 A customer has tasked me with updating some of the UI elements in their application. Among the problems they listed was a redraw bug in Snow Leopard, where the controls on windows with a set background color would display a slightly different color in their background even with the Composite property set to True. After about an hour of testing different workarounds, I found what I believe to be an excellent solution.

In this application, all of the windows have a set background color, but only a few displayed the error. I had absolutely no luck in determining the difference, so I can only assume that it’s an inconsistent REALbasic bug. Here’s how I fixed it:

  1. Add a new object to your project, mine is named “WindowHack,” and set it’s Super to “Window.”
  2. Open the window subclass, and navigate to the “Paint” event.
  3. Inside the “Paint” event, add the following block of code:
    #if TargetMacOS then
    If Me.HasBackColor Then
    g.ForeColor = me.BackColor
    g.FillRect( 0, 0, g.Width, g.Height )
    End If
    #endif
  4. Now set the Super of the windows with the problem to “WindowHack” and test.

This seemed to be the most elegant solution I could find to the problem and, quite honestly, the root of the issue still eludes me. Any thoughts on what might be causing this inconsistency?

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The GraffitiRibbon wasn’t a very popular control, and would require a complete rewrite in order to improve it’s usability on the scale which is required. As such, we will no longer be offering GraffitiRibbon for sale. I would to apologize if this has inconvenienced anyone.

Thanks for your support and understanding.

Anthony G. Cyphers
Sole Proprietor
CyphersTECH Consulting

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