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In article <hawkfish-E914D1.08360420032001@brokaw.wa.com>,
 Richard Wesley <hawkfish@electricfish.com> wrote:

> > In article <hawkfish-BA6D2F.09175619032001@brokaw.wa.com>,
> >  Richard Wesley <hawkfish@electricfish.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > - The background lines at the edge of the dialog are not in line with 
> > > the rest of the dialog;
[...]> 
> According to the Carbon Dev mailing list:
> 
> - This is a bug in Aqua caused by the background pattern not taking the 
> origin into account;

Actually, it seems that the problem is that the pattern actually *does* 
takes the origin into account, not that it doesn't. *The programmer* 
hasn't taken the origin into account, because on OS 9 the backgrounds 
are generally just white (or gray), and not patterned like OS X.

> - Apple refuses to fix the problem;

....'cause it's not a problem, it's always been that way, and QuickDraw 
is *designed* to do it that way, but it never shows up in windows that 
don't erase to a pattern....

> - A number of frameworks besides PowerPlant have the same problem;

Anything that expects a pattern's starting point not to change if the 
origin of the GrafPort changed would have this problem.

> - The only real workaround is to intercept the EraseRect and EraseRgn 
> bottlenecks and fix the origin before calling StdXXX;

Why not just modify the PP files that do the erasing? Or would that 
include too many files? In any event, I expect that's a solution for a 
small application only, though. A PowerPlant fix is in order.

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