Controlling Graphic Effects in Scripts

[Bob Sneidar]

The properties of anything is an array of ALL the properties. You cannot set one property to the whole array of properties! It should read:

get the dropshadow of me
set the dropshadow of me to empty

Bob


On Aug 26, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Timothy Bleiler wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is pretty weird. I was having trouble setting the dropShadow to empty. It seemed not to work sometimes. I've isolated the problem to this -
> 
> Create a button with the dropShadow property set from the property inspector.
> 
> Put this script into the button
> 
> on mouseUp
>   get the Properties of me
>  SET THE Dropshadow of me to it
> end mouseUp
> 
> What I'm seeing is that commenting out the first line allows the dropShadow to be set to empty.
> With the first line in, the dropShadow doesn't change.
> 
> Is this a bug? Or is there some reason for this?
> 
> 
> Tim Bleiler, Ph.D.
> Instructional Designer, HSIT
> University at Buffalo
> 
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