Transparency, check style background-color not as expected

[Robert Huber]

Hi All

Setting checkbox form property transparent as well as CSS style property background-color: #...... for checkboxes (style check) does not work in Servoy 4.1.5. Can anyone confirm this, please? Does it work in Servoy 5?

It looks like in the attachment if background-ground is set to orange (foreground is green). Colors are just to show the differences. Setting form property to transparent displays a light grey, but should display the forms background color (which is a darker grey in this example).

Thank and regards, Robert

PS: It does not work for radio button styles, but radio button styles are not finished yet, as far as I understand (don't know about Servoy 5 state, though)

Mac OS X 10.6.2
Java build 1.6.0_17-b04-248-10M3025

[lvostinar]

You have just a field and want to display the background of its form ? Or there is more ? What happens if you change the look and feel ?

[patrick]

I think we have seen that, too. It's Mac only and I guess the form above is shown in a tab panel, right? The Mac uses different grey for each level of nested panes. If you set those components to transparent, you don't see the color of you (top) form, but the generic grey that the Mac uses for that level of panel.

[Robert Huber]

Hi Laurian

There are 3 thins associated to the problem, I think:

1) It does not show the (correct) background, as Patrick says. Servoy doesn't generally show the correct background if the nesting is more than one level deep, as Patrick explained. This is a long standing problem and exists at least back to version 1.9 (that's the version I started with). It would be really very nice if this could solved, as nested forms just don't look right on the Mac.

2) The orange is the background set (by me to show the effect). But the orange color is only shown for the field part right of the text, but it should show for the whole field, i. e. including the light grey part as well. The checkbox field itself spans until the right edge of the orange part. So this part is displayed wrongly. By the way, to make the orange part appear, I have set the field to NOT transparent (just for this effect to show)

3) As Patrick says the default background grey of the checkbox (and radio) field is not the grey of the set background (the darker one) but I assume it is the grey of the panel that Mac uses

Attached the Screenshot for Windows XP. If the checkbox field is set to transparent, it shows corrrectly on Windows, i. e. the background gray (instead of the orange).

Best regards, Robert

You have just a field and want to display the background of its form ? Or there is more ? What happens if you change the look and feel ?

[lvostinar]

If this is about aqua look and feel (Mac), not sure what we can do. You can open a case ( if you didn't already) and we'll search for a fix.

[Robert Huber]

Hi Laurian

I did file a case with number 266638

Thanks for looking into it!

Best regards, Robert

If this is about aqua look and feel (Mac), not sure what we can do. You can open a case ( if you didn't already) and we'll search for a fix.

[amcgilly]

Setting checkbox form property transparent as well as CSS style property background-color: #...... for checkboxes (style check) does not work in Servoy 4.1.5. Can anyone confirm this, please? Does it work in Servoy 5?

This isn't working in 5.1.1 either - transparent radios and check boxes on mac aren't transparent, they're grey. It seems like this problem has been around for a long time, and Robert filed case 266638 in January - what's the word from Servoy on this? Can this be fixed or is it beyond your control?

Thanks.

[lvostinar]

This is a Mac Java bug. We filed an issue to Apple about this, cannot fix it on our part.

[joetraff]

I think we have seen that, too. It's Mac only and I guess the form above is shown in a tab panel, right? The Mac uses different grey for each level of nested panes. If you set those components to transparent, you don't see the color of you (top) form, but the generic grey that the Mac uses for that level of panel.

Fully agree with you.
It's only MAC.

[amcgilly]

Using Servoy 7, Java 7, on Mac and I still can't get a group of radio buttons to show up with a transparent background on a Mac. Servoy said they reported this as a Mac Java bug in April 2010. Hs nothing changed in all that time, or am I doing something wrong?

[lvostinar]

Using Servoy 7, Java 7, on Mac and I still can't get a group of radio buttons to show up with a transparent background on a Mac. Servoy said they reported this as a Mac Java bug in April 2010. Hs nothing changed in all that time, or am I doing something wrong?

Is there a case in JIRA about this ? Maybe you can open one so we can investigate if anything has changed.

[lvostinar]

This issue showed up again, see https://support.servoy.com/browse/SVY-7 ... ment-36706 for a workaround (you have to use radio box/check box instead of radio group/check group).