Subject: Re: platform support for tri-state checkboxes?
From: Bryan Prusha (bryanp@wolfram.com)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 11:09:34 CST
At 20:34 -0600 2/28/00, Paul Rohr wrote:
>At 06:28 PM 2/28/00 -0800, I wrote:
>>2. Keep it there as a tri-state checkbox instead. That way, you could
>>easily turn all the toolbars on or off at once. However, I'm not sure this
>>is all that useful.
>
>This reminds me -- what's the current level of support for tri-state
>checkbox widgets on each of our supported platforms?
>
>I know they've been around on Win32 for quite a while, which is why they're
>currently being used on the second pane of the paragraph dialog, but at the
>time, Shaw wasn't able to quickly scrounge one up for GTK, which surprised
>us both.
>
>Two questions:
>
>1. How hard will it be to come up with one for GTK/GNOME?
>
>2. Are we going to encounter similar problems on BeOS, QNX, or the Mac?
>
>Paul
They've existed on Mac since MacOS 8.0 and via Appearance
Extension, this should work all the way back to MacOS 7.1.2.
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