Possible : stack with transparent backgound?

[Bob Sneidar]

I believe you can add an alpha channel to mask the stack. I have never done it, but I heard it discussed a number of times. 

Bob S


> On Sep 10, 2020, at 2:41 PM, David Bovill via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Id like to create a stack  - has to be a stack - and for the text and some other elements to be visible but the stack background to be transparent - is this possible with some combination of inks and masks and blend levels?
> On 2 Sep 2020, 22:03 +0100, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
>> It appears I have that backwards?
>> 
>> Bob S
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 2, 2020, at 8:28 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Ditto, and I am not sure what noticeable impact one method would have over another. There was some blurb a long time ago about how these keys are internally sorted. I believe what was proposed is that a set of NUMERIC keys beginning with 0 would actually sort correctly.
>>> 
>>> Bob S
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 2, 2020, at 8:24 AM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> David,
>>>> 
>>>> Nope you have to sort them NUMERIC. As you said this is the only way I know of. I do this all the time. I don't know of any other way.
>>>> 
>>>> put the keys of tMyArray into tKeys
>>>> sort lines of tKeys numeric
>>>> repeat for each line tKey in tKeys
>>>> 
>>>> -- do what you want with tMyArray[tKey]
>>>> -- this line will put the array data in the message box (assuming there is no other sub keys in each numeric array entry).
>>>> put tMyArray[tKey] into tMyVar
>>>> 
>>>> end repeat
>>>> 
>>>> 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 David Bovill via use-livecode
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2020 10:55 AM
>>>> To: How to use LiveCode
>>>> Cc: David Bovill
>>>> Subject: Looping though a numerically indexed array
>>>> 
>>>> I’m pretty sure there must be a way to efficiently loop through numerically indexed arrays
>>>> 
>>>> Repeat for each key and repeat for each element does not seem to sort the keys in numeric order,. Of course I can get the keys and sort them before repeating - but is there a more efficient way?
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