RE: blur a background

2013-08-30 Thread Ralph DiMola
ssage- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Schonewille Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 1:20 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: blur a background Hi CHris, Import a snapshot of the card. Set the blendLevel of the new image control to 50 and move the

Re: blur a background

2013-08-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi Chris, Here's a trick I used a while back: make a snapshot of the card, then scale the image down, then scale it up again. Simple recipe to try it out: - create a new stack and drag random controls onto it - drag on a button and set its script to ## constant kBlurFactor = 2 on mouseUp    loca

Re: blur a background

2013-08-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi CHris, Import a snapshot of the card. Set the blendLevel of the new image control to 50 and move the image control 3 or 4 pixels to the top-left. You can easily to this by script. You don't need to use static picture for this. You can do this dynamically, to make correspond to the current s

Re: blur a background

2013-08-29 Thread Chris Sheffield
Hmm. Except I'm not really working with images. At least, I'm trying to avoid that if possible. Maybe I should have explained a little better. I've got a stack that will eventually be a mobile app. I have to toggle a screen overlay of sorts that will present to the user only certain words to tap

Re: blur a background

2013-08-29 Thread Colin Holgate
I think you’ll need to use code to do the blurring: http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/26580-vision-how-do-i-blur-an-image ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage