Turn "outer glow" On and Off? - Solved

[DR White]

// LiveCode 9.0.5-rc-1
set the outerglow of grc "Oval_3_1" to true
set the outerglow of grc "Oval_3_1" to false

Why does the above code NOT control the "outerGlow" of grc?

Thanks,

David

[richmond62]

Because 'outerglow' is far more complicated than that:
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Button 'ON':

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on mouseUp
   set the outerglow["color"] of grc "Oval_3_1" to "0,0,0"
   set the outerglow["opacity"] of grc "Oval_3_1" to "255"
   set the outerglow["blendMode"] of grc "Oval_3_1" to "normal"
   set the outerglow["filter"] of grc "Oval_3_1" to "gaussian"
   set the outerglow["size"] of grc "Oval_3_1" to "50"
   set the outerglow["spread"] of grc "Oval_3_1" to "50"
end mouseUp

Button 'OFF':

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on mouseUp
   set the outerglow of grc "Oval_3_1" to false
end mouseUp

[DR White]

richmond62,

I try not to ask for help until after I have done some research myself first.

When I searched "outerglow" I found some older comments such as you have described, but I thought that maybe, the later versions of LC had simplify the process.

Thanks for your explanation,

David

[[-hh]]

Remark.
Because the outerglow property is an array the following is equivalent to switch it OFF:

set the outerglow of grc "Oval_3_1" to false
set the outerglow of grc "Oval_3_1" to true
set the outerglow of grc "Oval_3_1" to empty

In the first two cases the engine inserts empty because false and true are invalid values for the (array) property outerglow.

[richmond62]

the later versions of LC had simplify the process

That sounds all very jolly, but 'outerglow', being complicated insofar as it has 5 parameters
is probably not capable of being simplified.

[[-hh]]

Certainly "simplifying" makes sense in that "turning on" as from the property inspector could set default values (or the latest used values) for the array elements.

But that does nothing else than setting array elements as Richmond did in his "ON"-script above.

That is, we have to do that by ourselves when scripting/ not doing from the property inspector.

[DR White]

Don't get me wrong.

I think that LC is the best software on the planet for quickly and easily creating simple to complex apps on ANY platform!! Thats coming from an old "Visual Basic" enthusiast (young people probably never heard of it - LOL).

I just wanted to be sure that I was not over looking the simplest way of doing something.