New substacks are black

[Varen Swaab]

Thanks, you're absolutely correct, the color was inherited from the 
mainstack. I'm not sure I would have figured that out myself even if I 
spent a day on the problem. I'm grateful for this discussion to help 
with problems like this!!

Varen

On Apr 21, 2005, at 1:07 PM, Devin Asay wrote:

> On Apr 21, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Varen Swaab wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a problem that is probably something really stupid that I'm 
>> doing, just can't figure out what.
>>
>> In my application when I create a new substack the window comes up 
>> black. There is no color property in the inspector, the window is 
>> just black. I can change the color of the window by adding a color 
>> property but it seems it shouldn't open black in the first place.
>>
>> Probably related, I've noticed that whenever I have a dialog window 
>> open it also is in black.
>>
> Var,
>
> Objects in Revolution inherit properties from their parents objects. 
> In the case of substacks (and dialogs are just specialized substacks), 
> the parent is the mainstack. Check the backgroundColor prop of the 
> mainstack. It's probably been set to black. If it isn't that, then 
> somehow the default background color for the engine got set to black, 
> it which case I'm out of my depth.
>
> Devin
>
> Devin Asay
> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> Brigham Young University
>
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