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[s4crificed]

Hello.
I'm creating a one key controlled browser for people, with poor vision, and i have a problem- system highlighting with dotted lines isn't very noticeable..(try it urslef-open IE, load page and press TAB several times..). Is there a way, to change the style of this?
thank you

 

[harebrain]

Use one of the desktop themes for the visually impaired.

 

[s4crificed]

eeem..how can i set theme from my app?
and where i can get one, with settings i need?

 

[harebrain]

Presumably users are not vision-impaired only when using your application; the proper theme will provide a system-wide solution regardless of application. High-constrast and big-print themes are included with Windows. Right click the desktop, select Properties, Themes tab, and pick one. (You or an admin might have chosen not to install these themes. If so, you'll have to get them from the Windows installation media.)

 

[harebrain]

You know, now that I've tried it, my suggestion has no effect on the specific defect that you started this thread about. However, it does work well otherwise except in Web browsers, where it seems that CSS overrides everything useful you might try.

 

[s4crificed]

i think U don't understand..
here's what i'm talking about

http://www.part.lt/img/300b4eadb5424650807eb051213e806d552.jpg

i need to change the style of line, which marks focused button, link etc..

 

[harebrain]

No, I understand. I was just wrong. It happens.

 

[s4crificed]

looks like i found the solution i'll say goodbye to MS and IE, and will use firefox activex plugin, instead of twebbrowser. It's faster, more user-friendly, less buggy and so on...hope it works

 

[s4crificed]

f$$k...there's bugs in that thing...for example Tab key doesn't work in browser. And i need it desperately, cause browser should travle through links itself (with ttimer)..

any suggestions?

for example..is it possible to move mouse to a focuse link, text etc in webbrowser? or maybe someone knows how to force mozilla activex to work with tab focusing?

 

[harebrain]

How about asking in the

http://tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=215

forum? I have a feeling there's a way to force this with CSS. I know you can force IE to always use a specific CSS, which might not be desirable, but if you can induce the behavior you want it might be worth it.

 

[whosrdaddy]

Delphi's TWebbrowser is lacking in many ways.

Take a look at bsalsa's TEmbeddedWB:

http://www.bsalsa.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=4

it has everything you need

/Daddy

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[s4crificed]

ok, thanks, it looks kinda nice...but. how can i change style of focus rectangle or focus colors?

 

[harebrain]

I think I was on to something: CSS. Check this out:

http://www.xmlplease.com/inverted

 

[harebrain]

Arrgh!

I spent an entire day researching this, and I've learned the following:
[ul][li]the formal name is focus rectangle[/li]
[li]it's an object with system-wide properties[/li]
[li]the first MS OS that gives you access to it is Vista (via Accessibility)[/li][li]there are system-level functions to get its properties, but none to set them[/li][li]some people try to mess with it in browsers using CSS[/li][li]most people consider it immutable[/li][/ul]
Even though my gut says there must be a way to get at this thing, I can't find it. Good luck!