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Drawing focus ring on mac [message #492402]

Tue, 20 October 2009 11:05

Artem Redkin

Messages: 26
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I have custom control, a composite with borderless text field and an image. This composite has a print listener, which draws text frame around text field and image. The problem is, that focus ring is not drawn outside this composite:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/GVMtRQpYUiZwBeQBWmNIGA? feat=directlink
On the left is my control, on the right - focused text field.

Can i draw outside this composite without invoking new GC on this composite's parent?

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Re: Drawing focus ring on mac [message #492770 is a reply to message #492402]

Wed, 21 October 2009 16:06

Grant Gayed

Messages: 2150
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

The GC in the PaintEvent you get is created on your control, so there's no
way to extend its clipping beyond the Control's bounds.

The only suggestion I can think of is to give your custom control an
additional parent Composite that is larger than your control by a few pixels
in each direction, and when the parent Composite gets a Paint event then it
can draw the border on itself if appropriate.

HTH,
Grant

"Artem Redkin" <artem@redkin.su> wrote in message
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> I have custom control, a composite with borderless text field and an
image. This composite has a print listener, which draws text frame around
text field and image. The problem is, that focus ring is not drawn outside
this composite:
>
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/GVMtRQpYUiZwBeQBWmNIGA? feat=directlink
> On the left is my control, on the right - focused text field.
>
> Can i draw outside this composite without invoking new GC on this
composite's parent?

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