On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 02:50  pm, J. Smith wrote:

> The problem I have is that when I build a scrolling list in a window 
> build
> using the appearance window attributes, i.e.
>
>
> appearance WINDOW _MainWnd,"Backup",@wRect,_kDocumentWindowClass,¬
>                   _kWindowStandardFloatingAttributes
>
> def setwindowbackground(_kThemeActiveDialogBackgroundBrush, _zTrue)
>
>
>
> the scolling list has the same color as the window background. I've 
> looked
> through the Appearance examples and did not see any code to sidestep 
> this
> problem.
>
> Does anyone have a solution...or am I not specifying the appearance 
> window
> correctly  ????
>
> TIA
>
> J Smith
>
>

Hi

I tend to draw my own lists, and use

OSErr = fn getthemebrushascolor 
(_kThemeBrushListViewBackground,16,_True,@ListBackgroundColor)
OSErr = fn getthemebrushascolor 
(_kThemeBrushListViewSeparator,16,_True,@ListSeparatorColor)
HiliteError = fn getthemebrushascolor 
(_kThemeBrushPrimaryHighlightColor,16,_True,@ListHiliteColor)

to get the correct colours so that I can paint them where required..

Regards

Ian