Re: how to get rid of mouse-over button color?

[Ben Johnson <ben blarg net>]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 04:00:30PM +0200, Richard Stellingwerff wrote:
...
> As the author of Clearlooks, I got complaints about exactly this issue
> from people using normal mouse input devices. The way I fixed it in
> the engine, is by simply ignoring the prelight color for toggled
> togglebuttons on mouse-over and using a lighter version of the active
> color.
> 
> This way one can always see if the toggle button is toggled after a
> click event, as the cost of having semi-hardcoded prelight values. At
> least it improves usability, so I can live with it (and it looks neat,
> too!).

I'm not sure how you accomplished this.  give a little more detail?
where in the engine did you make this change?  did you provide a signal
handler for some sort of mouse-over event that messes with the button
color?

Thanks,

- Ben