Visual Background mode indicator missing

[ooper-zz]

Given a user is in card mode When an Edit/Background menu item is chosen Then the stack background should display a visual indication of being in the background mode. The orig. HC had a patterned outline of the menubar.

Conversely, Given a user is in background mode When an Edit/Background menu item is chosen Then the stack background should hide the visual background mode indicator as described above

[defano]

Hi @ooper-zz ,

Agreed—

HyperCard solved this problem by adding a decoration to the menu bar. Unfortunately, Swing does not provide this capability (as far as I've been able to tell). As an inexpensive workaround, I add the string (Background) to the card window's name to denote the user is editing the background.

Any suggestions of how to denote background editing, short of adding the patterned indicator to the menu bar?

[ooper-zz]

I think one would probably have to drop down to the awt peer classes in all platforms to do this, which is impractical for this purpose. I think a pattern around the window title should give us the desired effect for now and will work the same cross-platform, like yay:

If you are ok, I'll submit a pull request later on and move on to bigger things.

[ooper-zz]

I went ahead and submitted a Pull Request for your review. Thanks

[defano]

Accepted and merged; closing.