Gradient GUI tool?

Terry Judd tsj at unimelb.edu.au
Wed Oct 15 02:53:27 EDT 2008


There's a 'gradient' panel in the property inspector (2nd item down) when
you have a graphic object selected. Is that what you're looking for?

Terry...


On 15/10/08 5:20 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> Jim Sims wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 15, 2008, at 7:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> 
>>> Rev 3.0 has some of the most comprehensive options for applying
>>> gradients to its objects of any high-level scripting tool I've seen.
>>> 
>>> But darn, my fingers are tired from using the Message Box. ;)
>>> 
>>> Did I overlook a GUI tool in Rev for working with gradients?
>>> 
>>> Is there one out there, or will I need to roll my own?
>> 
>> 
>> A wonderful Rev resource - tactilemedia  by Scott Rossi has
>> one   :-)
> 
> I thought that one generated gradients algorithmically itself, as we
> used to do in the pre-Rev 3.0 world.  Now that Rev has all those many
> properties for the new built-in fillGradient (type, rsmp, from, via, to,
> quality, repeat, mirror, wrap), I dare say the engine does more than
> even Mr. Rossi could do.  No offense to Scott, but Mark Waddingham's put
> in a strikingly complete set of options, enough to satisfy the pickiest
> gradient designer. :)
> 
> I was reading about those properties this evening, thinking maybe I'd
> make a GUI for setting them, but it just seemed to likely that someone
> else had already do it, so I thought I'd check in here.

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Dr Terry Judd
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Biomedical Multimedia Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne
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