A modest proposal for a new property

[Ralph DiMola]

How would you use the alpha channel to do this? I just had an image and the transparent part of the image did not send a mouseup message. I put a button behind the image to solve it. Was there a way I could have used the alpha channel to get the mouseup message anywhere in the image and still retain the transparency?

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Colin Holgate via use-livecode
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 1:18 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Cc: Colin Holgate
Subject: Re: A modest proposal for a new property

How do you currently set the alpha channel? The hit area icon I was suggesting could be an image with the alpha channel that the button uses. That way you could have any shape hit area, it wouldn’t have to be based on the button’s icon.

> On Sep 26, 2017, at 1:14 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Colin Holgate write:
> 
> > The way that this problem is handled in sort other tools is to have 
> > a definable hit area for each control (usually those would be buttons).
> > You can set the idle, over, and pressed versions of the button’s 
> > image, and also you can set the hit area image.
> >
> > LiveCode already has a way to do most of that, couldn’t the hit area 
> > be another entry I the inspector’s icons section?
> 
> Where would one obtain the list of polygon points?
> 
> Currently the hit region is definable using the alpha channel.


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