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I can confirm freak's findings but nevertheless I would suggest to change the help for Mac. Especially for a beginner it is annoying and frustrating to read in the help for SetGadgetColor:

And this function is not contained in "Platform-dependant functions" with a hint that most Gadgets don't work with SetGadgetColor...

I have therefore compiled a html table (in the style of "Platform-dependant functions") which indicates for each gadget whether it works or doesn't work with SetGadgetColor and SetGadgetFont or whether an API workaround exists. Unfortunately I don't know a way to display this table as html on this board. Therefore I had to include it as an image...

Hint to Andre: it would be nice if you could integrate this table into the help files. Please send me a PM if you are interested...



Update 1: I have added SetGadgetItemColor to my table.
Update 2: I have changed the status of SetGadgetFont for the HyperLinkGadget to Red

@Shardik: thanks for your effort and the offer with the table )

But before I change the help, there is needed an official statement by the developers Fred / Timo. E.g. if they want such extensions in the help, if they will add (by workarounds...) mure functionality about the colors, etc.

I don't think there will be many changes in this area anymore (at least not until the day we switch to Cocoa as the underlying framework). So feel free to update the help accordingly.

> Hint to Andre: it would be nice if you could integrate this table into the help files. Please send me a PM if you are interested...

Don't add that table. Add a note in the topic for each function instead.

Timo,

I fully understand that there won't be many changes implemented in the
current Mac version of PB with its Carbon framework base. But do you
already have any plans in which PB version the porting from Carbon to
Cocoa will happen? I know that this task will take a lot of work because
all Gadgets will have to be reprogrammed and adapted to utilize the object
oriented Cocoa framework. In principle I would guess that this is almost as
much work as to develop a new Mac version of PureBasic from scratch...

Do you already know whether Carbon support will be ended completely or
will there exist a possibility to chose Carbon as an alternate subsystem?


That would be indeed the most user friendly solution...

Informations about (restricted) coloring possibilities on MacOS were added to the manual, for PB4.61...

This thread is pinned and seems to be important.

All these facts are correct also in the current version 5.10? Both listings (limitations and gadget colors) are from the year 2011 (PB version 4.6)...
Thanks!

No, it's no more accurate as we switched to Cocoa inbetween.

The limitations in the coloring of gadgets only apply if selecting subsystem Carbon. So SetGadgetColor() should work fine for all gadgets listed in the help for that command when using the Cocoa framework (default since PB 5.00).