Forcing Sketchup to use IE8 and other Web Dialog problems

[Dan Rathbun]

@aerilius said:

In WebDialogs, I set the background color manually because not all browsers/OSs do it right:
dlg.execute_script('document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].style.background="'+dlg.get_default_dialog_color+'"')

I usually do it on the Ruby-side, before I call show(), ie:

dlg.set_background_color( dlg.get_default_dialog_color )

[Dan Rathbun]

@Anton: Users will hate your right-justified switches.

In a left-to-right language, the checkboxes are on the left, and each label is left-justified.

Try this to make it look more like a dialog:

<form>
  <fieldset hidefocus="true" tabIndex="-1">
    <legend>Chain Multiple Commands</legend>

    <label name="L1" id="L1" class="label_cbox">
    <input type="checkbox" name="CB1" id="CB1"
     class="form_cbox" checked="false"/> SU Full Screen</label>

    <!-- ... etc. ... -->

  </fieldset>
</form>

[Aerilius]

@dan rathbun said:

I usually do it on the Ruby-side, before I call show(), ie:

When I saw that method in the docs, I liked it also more until I found that it didn't work on Windows 7 (returned white).
Interestingly, on Windows 7, the CSS color " %(#000080)[window]" is also white, but SketchUp's dlg.get_default_dialog_color works. I think driven reported similar problems with OS X (we then used a hard-coded gray for the OS X dialog).

I wished this all was less complicated.

[Dan Rathbun]

Well.. it returns white on Win7 because that IS the system dialog background color "out of the box".
(One reason I hate Windows 6+ is they try to make dialogs look like webpages!)

Anyway.. a user can set their own theme, or download a premade theme from the Web, in which the dialog background may not be white at all.

The other day, on XP, as a test I changed my system dialog color to Purple, just to test that method, and it worked, it returned the purple color that I had set. And SketchUp also used that color for background of it's dialogs and toolbars, etc.