Re: o$: making a field transparent so that it shows on top of an image in the background

hi Alex.

I was afraid I’d have to go the route of changing the field type… so I did.

I make it a kText field — which is transparent, and then just played with the $text property to make it all work.

so, I’m good to go. it really wan’t much different to what I had — The only thing preventing me from doing that before is the irrational concern that $bobjs can only be reference by number, not by name… so its less ‘developer’ safe from copy/paste.

just had to swallow my lumps and do it.

Doug Easterbrook
Arts Management Systems Ltd.
mailto:doug@artsman.com
www.artsman.com
Phone (403) 650-1978

> On Sep 21, 2017, at 10:07 AM, Alex Clay <aclay@mac.com> wrote:
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> Hi Doug,
>
> If the user doesn’t need to interact with the field you can use kBobj (shape field) with the text $shape. Otherwise, perhaps you can set the $backgroundtheme to kBGThemeParent?
>
> FWIW I’ve filed a bug for Studio 8.0 and 8.1 where placing a text shape field over a background image on Windows won’t show the field. ST/CP/092 for those keeping score at home, and this works ok on macOS.
>
> Alex
>
>> On Sep 21, 2017, at 11:57, Doug Easterbrook <doug@artsman.com> wrote:
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>> morning all:
>>
>> for the life of me, I’m struggling to get this right and cannot remember how to do it. I’m using studio 5.2.3 at the moment (studio 8.1 is in the near future)
>>
>>
>> what am I trying to do?
>> 1) put a backgrojnd picture on a screen (no problem – just copy and paste on the window)
>>
>> 2) put a field on top of the background picture and set the text and colour I want (no problem, just set text colour under ‘text’ tab of properties
>>
>>
>> 3) make the field transparent so that the back ground shows through with the end goal that I just have text on the background.
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>> this last part is proving exceedingly difficult as I can’t find the combination of properties that will let me do it.
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>> what I end up with is some colour background that I ca’t get rid of and the text within that.
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>>
>> field tyoes are: kmultilineentry and kentry
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>>
>>
>> it works with ktext fields ..
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>>
>>
>> ideas?
>>
>>
>>
>> Doug Easterbrook
>> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
>> mailto:doug@artsman.com
>> www.artsman.com
>> Phone (403) 650-1978
>>
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