Thanks Jacque. I switched off 3D to get the borders and it looks OK for this particular purpose. STill not sure what's going on with the color.
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:19 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > On 2/11/12 2:15 PM, Pete wrote: > >> I have a group that has all the default properties set except I switched >> on >> showBorder with a borderwidth of 2. All looks as expected with a light >> gray background and a visible border. Now I set the background in the >> Colors and Patterns tab of the inspector to a specific color and turned >> the >> opaque property on. The color changes as expected but the border >> disappears. I tried setting the color of the border but no difference. >> How do I get my border back? >> > > The default setting is to use 3D, where the borders are determined by the > topcolor and bottomcolor (labelled in the inspector as inset and outset > bevels.) The regular bordercolor is only used if the 3D setting is turned > off. So to get what you want, fiddle with the two bevels. > > On the same card I have a rectangle whose background I wanted to be the >> same color as the group. I changed the Fill color of the rectangle to the >> same setting as the group, but the color is a slightly different shade >> than >> the group's background. >> > > I've never seen that happen when the RGB values are the same. Maybe one > object has a slight transparency set? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > ______________________________**_________________ > 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<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ 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
