Hi,

Not strictly FPC related, but I know here are some OS/2 software developers around - and I have no idea where else to ask.

I'm working on supporting OS/2 in fpGUI Toolkit and creating OS/2 themes. Looking at some of the OS/2 screenshots I have collected, I noticed that in the same dialog you sometimes have blue text and sometimes black text. Anybody know why, and what is the difference between the two (other than the color alone)?

Here is an example:

http://geldenhuys.co.uk/~graemeg/os2_screenshot.png

The only pattern I can see is that "static text" (eg: labels and groupbox captions) use the blue text, but Checkboxes, Buttons, Menu Items etc use the black text. I still don't understand IBM's reasoning behind this though - but would like to know out of curiosity.

Regards,
Graeme

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

Hi, Not strictly FPC related, but I know here are some OS/2 software developers around - and I have no idea where else to ask.

Isn't OS/2 from pre-win95 days and is very risky to support since it's dead?

Related:
"OS/2: Blue Lion to be the next distro of the 28-year-old OS"

Will fpc be supporting "blue lion", whatever it is.. (sorry, no time to research it myself, right now).. up until a.d.d. sets in

Isn't OS/2 from pre-win95 days and is very risky to support since it's dead?

Object Pascal and Delphi is dead too - but look how happy we all are. ;-)

Will fpc be supporting "blue lion", whatever it is.. (sorry, no time to research it myself, right now).. up until a.d.d. sets in

FPC already supports OS/2, so I would presume FPC + "blue lion" will work without problems, as "blue lion" is based on OS/2 Warp v4.52 (or some version like that).

Regards,
Graeme