Colors/Borders

[Pete]

Thanks Jacque.  I switched off 3D to get the borders and it looks OK for
this particular purpose.  STill not sure what's going on with the color.

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:19 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 2/11/12 2:15 PM, Pete wrote:
>
>> I have a group that has all the default properties set except I switched
>> on
>> showBorder with a borderwidth of 2.  All looks as expected with a light
>> gray background and a visible border.  Now I set the background in the
>> Colors and Patterns tab of the inspector to a specific color and turned
>> the
>> opaque property on.  The color changes as expected but the border
>> disappears.  I tried setting the color of the border but no difference.
>>  How do I get my border back?
>>
>
> The default setting is to use 3D, where the borders are determined by the
> topcolor and bottomcolor (labelled in the inspector as inset and outset
> bevels.) The regular bordercolor is only used if the 3D setting is turned
> off. So to get what you want, fiddle with the two bevels.
>
>  On the same card I have a rectangle whose background I wanted to be the
>> same color as the group.  I changed the Fill color of the rectangle to the
>> same setting as the group, but the color is a slightly different shade
>> than
>> the group's background.
>>
>
> I've never seen that happen when the RGB values are the same. Maybe one
> object has a slight transparency set?
>
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