Re: How to make a stack transparent but the fields and images on it a different blend level

2010-12-26 Thread Martin Koob
I had tried to do this to make a floating window with a translucent boarder and text boxes that were opaque by having no blend on the text boxes and buttons and a blend on the stack It did not work. All of the objects were translucent as well. Is seems in Live Code that the Stack blend adds to

Re: How to make a stack transparent but the fields and images on it a different blend level

2010-12-26 Thread william humphrey
Hi Martin Thanks. Scott pointed me to his example stack. He didn't also mention the article he wrote. I thought I read all those. On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Martin Koob mk...@rogers.com wrote: I had tried to do this to make a floating window with a translucent boarder and text boxes

How to make a stack transparent but the fields and images on it a different blend level

2010-12-23 Thread william humphrey
* We can do something like the following to get around the limitation of making an entire stack transparent (in order to have the fields and images on the stack be darker than the transparent stack image behind).* * * ** * on doRectCapture * *get* the rect of this stack *hide* this stack

Re: How to make a stack transparent but the fields and images on it a different blend level

2010-12-23 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, william humphrey wrote: But the problem with this is that you can't move this stack around without immediately revealing that the transparent rect image is static. Is there some way (without keep getting a new rect to put in the background as that is too jerky) to make a stack and

Re: How to make a stack transparent but the fields and images on it a different blend level

2010-12-23 Thread Shao Sean
In theory this should be doable as the system allows for it (I have an external for Windows that does it) but cannot get it to work correctly on Mac OS X ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to