...thanks Jim & Scott - it's good to know that LiveCode has an integrated way of managing rounded rectangle window shapes. Bizarrely, it now looks like I may have to implement this HUD outside of a revlet, so I'll have to use the nine-images trick for Internet Explorer compatibility anyway! ;-)
On 17 Mar 2011, at 01:57, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Jim Lambert wrote: > >> You can also generate a rounded appearance with just one object. >> >> 1 - create a rounded rectangle graphic with the corner radii you want, say >> 30. >> 2 - name it "myMask" >> 3 - make it opaque & invisible >> 4 - set its rect to the card's rect >> 5 - set its geometry to scale with the window >> 6 - put this script in the card: >> >> command maskMe >> import snapshot from grc "myMask" >> set the windowshape of this stack to the id of last image >> delete last image >> end maskMe > > [forehead smack] > > Jim's right, I should have mentioned this is the easy way to do a round rect > window. I'm used to the pre-graphic effects days of LC (Rev) where the only > way to create a shadow for a custom window was to create a mask shape in an > image-editing app along with its dropshadow and slice that into 9 tiles. > > Now one can simply add a dropshadow to a round rect graphic, place the > graphic in a group with a suitably large margin, and import the windowshape > mask image as a snapshot of the group. > > Good call Jim. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
