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MiscColorView

	Inherits From:	View : Responder : Object
	Declared In:	misckit/MiscColorView.h

Class Description

This view fills its contents with a specified color (setBackgroundColor:). You can also use the setUseSameColorAsDesktop: method to force it to use the color of the users desktop background. In this release you can not use transparency in the background.

Instance Variables

NXColor backgroundColor; BOOL sameColorAsDesktop;

	backgroundColor	The views background color.
	sameColorAsDesktop	True if we draw in the desktop color.

Method Types

	Initializing the class object	+ initialize
	Initializing a new object	- initFrame:
	Adjusting appearance	- setBackgroundColor: - backgroundColor - setUseSameColorAsDesktop: - hasSameColorAsDesktop
	Drawing	- drawSelf::
	Archiving	- read: - write:

Class Methods

initialize

+ initialize

Initializes the class. See also:  - initFrame:

Instance Methods

backgroundColor

- (NXColor)backgroundColor

Returns the background color. See also:  - setBackgroundColor: drawSelf::

- drawSelf:(const NXRect *)rects :(int)rectCount

Redraws the views whole area using the backgroundColor. If we should appear in the same color as the desktop then we will read the NeXT1/BackgroundColor default. If there is no such defaut it will use the blue color with RGB values: 0.333, 0.333, 0.466. See also:  - setUseSameColorAsDesktop: hasSameColorAsDesktop

- (BOOL)hasSameColorAsDesktop

Returns YES is we will always draw our background in the same color as the desktop. See also:  - setUseSameColorAsDesktop:, - setBackgroundColor: initFrame:

- initFrame:(const NXRect *)frameRect

The views designated init method sets the default background color to white. See also:  - initialize read:

- read:(NXTypedStream *)stream

Reads the object from a stream. We take care of versioning. See also:  - write:, - initialize, setBackgroundColor:

- setBackgroundColor:(NXColor)color

Sets the background color to use if we do not restict the view to the desktop color. See also:  - setUseSameColorAsDesktop:, - drawSelf:: setUseSameColorAsDesktop:

- setUseSameColorAsDesktop:(BOOL)flag

If flag is YES then we will use the desktop's color for our background. See also:  - hasSameColorAsDesktop, - drawSelf:: write:

- write:(NXTypedStream *)stream

Writes the object to a stream using the latest archiving version. See also:  - read:, - initialize