Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/29/2016 09:51 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I agree, but in this case there are two versions of each label and I can't think of any other way to show both on demand. Yes, I should have put a snarky emoji in there. I do rely on tooltips. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com __

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/29/2016 09:34 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In all fairness, I was referring to my own work, and IIRC I also excluded complex productivity apps. My bad, I misremembered where that came from. What other people do is up to them. I usually just click it and see what happens. If the action t

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
I am wide-eyed at the breadth of the suggestion that we could affect that multidimensional company, FourthWidth. On 3/29/2016 7:50 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: This pointless bickering needs to end fourthwidth. Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media UX/UI Design On Mar 29, 2016, at 4:36 PM,

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/29/2016 11:15 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: And Richard Gaskin has pointed out that if you need tooltips then the UI isn't designed correctly. I agree, but in this case there are two versions of each label and I can't think of any other way to show both on demand. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: > On 03/29/2016 08:09 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> In either mode, you can hover over the label in the property >> inspector and the tooltip displays the alternate term. > > ...but only for property inspector items that actually have tooltips. > And Richard Gaskin has pointed

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/29/2016 08:09 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: In either mode, you can hover over the label in the property inspector and the tooltip displays the alternate term. ...but only for property inspector items that actually have tooltips. And Richard Gaskin has pointed out that if you need tooltips t

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/29/2016 3:36 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: Right you can turn on the English "meanings" of the property labels. Downside is: this doesn't help you later if you want to touch props by script. So I've left them to their native names so I would learn them that way. In either mode, you

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Yes.. it's the first thing I do if I have a fresh install, On March 29, 2016 at 10:52:25 AM, Richard Gaskin (ambassa...@fourthworld.com) wrote: If you're seeing actual LiveCode property names there you went out of your way to change that in Prefs.

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread Scott Rossi
This pointless bickering needs to end fourthwidth. Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media UX/UI Design > On Mar 29, 2016, at 4:36 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > >> On 03/29/2016 04:08 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> Well if that isn't the height of snobbery. > > The depth of your replies always c

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/29/2016 04:08 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Well if that isn't the height of snobbery. The depth of your replies always charges me up. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit t

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
Well if that isn't the height of snobbery. :-P -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On March 29, 2016 5:05:24 PM Scott Rossi wrote: Frankly, I could do widthout this commentary. ;-) Regards, Sc

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread Scott Rossi
Frankly, I could do widthout this commentary. ;-) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 3/29/16, 1:40 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Mark Wieder" wrote: >And why is "Width" easier to understand than "width"? ___

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > @ Richard --> Right you can turn on the English "meanings" of the > property labels. Downside is: this doesn't help you later if you > want to touch props by script. So I've left them to their native > names so I would learn them that way. I wrote the opposite.

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/29/2016 12:09 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I’m guessing you have the preference setting ‘Property Labels Are:’ > set to ‘Name of LiveCode Property. Why doesn't a tool for an English-like language display its native English-like property names by default? Making that change is the first

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Duh: OK this makes sense since the foreground color is the pencil color, is the text color, is the line color etc. > foregroundColor (forecolor) = border colour @ Richard --> Right you can turn on the English "meanings" of the property labels. Downside is: this doesn't help you later if you wa

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Paul wrote: >> On Mar 28, 2016, at 9:00 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: >> >> How do we set border color for a graphic object (round rectangle >> style) never used them much in the past, now I'm all about graphic >> UI. >> >> We have the line width, but I don't see border in the colors for

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-28 Thread dunbarx
Hi. Go to the colors and patterns pane. Then you will find "text/Border". What this does is set the "borderColor" Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami To: How LiveCode Sent: Tue, Mar 29, 2016 12:01 am Subject: Border color of

Re: Border color of graphic

2016-03-28 Thread p...@livecode.org
For a graphic object: foregroundColor (forecolor) = border colour backgroundColor (backColor) = fill colour I’m guessing you have the preference setting ‘Property Labels Are:’ set to ‘Name of LiveCode Property. You should see a tooltip showing the alternative ‘Description of option' if you hov

Border color of graphic

2016-03-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
I'm almost embarrassed to ask: How do we set border color for a graphic object (round rectangle style) never used them much in the past, now I'm all about graphic UI. We have the line width, but I don't see border in the colors for a graphic in the inspector of LC8 DP16 ?