Re: Drop Shadow in Text Field

2012-07-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
You'd be surprised how often XCoders resort to workarounds, but I do agree with you to some extent. There are many things in LiveCode you'd expect to just work while they don't. -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over

Re: Drop Shadow in Text Field

2012-07-26 Thread Richmond
On 07/26/2012 01:57 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Randy, You can put an opaque field of thesame size behind the transparent field and assign the same graphical effect to it. That way, you have one field that shows dropshadow behind the text and another field with a dropshadow following the o

Re: Drop Shadow in Text Field

2012-07-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Randy, You can put an opaque field of thesame size behind the transparent field and assign the same graphical effect to it. That way, you have one field that shows dropshadow behind the text and another field with a dropshadow following the outline. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Econo

Re: Drop Shadow in Text Field

2012-07-25 Thread Randy Hengst
Well Terry, that's very cool… thanks for the suggestion. be well, randy - On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:06 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > > On 26/07/2012, at 12:53 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > >> A graphic effect will usually respect whatever transparency is present in a >> control. So I think your only op

Re: Drop Shadow in Text Field

2012-07-25 Thread Randy Hengst
Thanks Scott, That's kind of what I thought… but, was hoping for a way to assign to the text and the outline of the field. be well, randy - On Jul 25, 2012, at 9:53 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > A graphic effect will usually respect whatever transparency is present in a > control. So I think yo

Re: Drop Shadow in Text Field

2012-07-25 Thread Terry Judd
On 26/07/2012, at 12:53 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > A graphic effect will usually respect whatever transparency is present in a > control. So I think your only option is to have the field be transparent > and the dropshadow effect applied to the text, with a graphic or other > object behind it. Yo

Re: Drop Shadow in Text Field

2012-07-25 Thread Scott Rossi
A graphic effect will usually respect whatever transparency is present in a control. So I think your only option is to have the field be transparent and the dropshadow effect applied to the text, with a graphic or other object behind it. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX D

Drop Shadow in Text Field

2012-07-25 Thread Randy Hengst
Hi All, When a drop shadow is applied to an opaque field, the shadow is shown around the edge of the field… not the text itself. When a drop shadow is applied to a transparent field, the drop shadow is applied to the text. Is there any way to have a drop shadow on the text for an opaque field?