Re: "lightening" a color

[hopefully pulling the colors brought this down to the size limit] Bringing up an old topic . . . I got interrupted after asking, but here's a cute way to do it. Hopefully, someone can help with a couple of the deficiencies of this script: 1) backgroundPixel no longer works. Older examples to

Re: "lightening" a color

There's no reason that Windows can not render a graphic or color equal to that of a Mac. Video card capabilities do have relevance however. On Sep 20, 2016 6:44 PM, "Bob Sneidar" wrote: > Lots of graphic affects on Macs, but Win seems to lack some of that >

Re: "lightening" a color

Lots of graphic affects on Macs, but Win seems to lack some of that functionality. I will put something in front of the background, like a grapic object, then change the opacity of the graphic object. Makes selecting things with a mouse lasso impossible tho' Bob S > On Sep 10, 2016, at 15:00

Re: "lightening" a color

On 9/10/16 5:00 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: Is there a way to "lighten" a color. This showed up on the list some time ago: function lightenColor origColor try repeat with i = 1 to 3 add 50 to item i of origColor if item i of origColor > 255 then put 255 into item i of origColor

Re: "lightening" a color

Here's a tint function from way back. pRGB is an RGB triplet, pValue is a decimal percent value for the desired tint of the color. function colorTint pRGB, pValue -- pRGB is RGB triplet -- pValue is between 0 and 1 put pRGB into theTint repeat with N = 1 to 3 put item N of pRGB

Re: "lightening" a color

Yet another option could be to set the ink of the object to "blendLighten". ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: "lightening" a color

Since white in the rgb space is made by adding max value of all three primary colours, and getting the colour will give you a list of numerical values in the form of 255,0,0 for maximum red, 0,255,0 for maximum green and 0,0,255 for maximum blue, you can always change any of these values to

Re: "lightening" a color

Have you considered just changing the border color of the object? If you made the border wider, and then changed the color a little that might be the best way to indicate to the user that they are using a different selection. It would certainly be a lot easier than changing the color of the

"lightening" a color

I am adding the ability to have multiple clients open, and want to use colors as a cue. Is there a way to "lighten" a color. That is (I suppose), to grab the numeric representation, and convert that to a much paler shade of the color? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462