drawingSvgCompileIcon(pIconName) always BLACK

[Brian Milby]

Well, it sure took me a while to get around to this.  I guess better late
than never though.  Not sure where the best place to put it, so I just
added it to my lc-misc repo on GitHub.  You can find the code here:
https://github.com/bwmilby/lc-misc/tree/master/IconDrawingLibrary

Thanks,
Brian

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 3:20 PM Klaus major-k via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> > Am 06.04.2022 um 21:18 schrieb Brian Milby via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> >
> > I guess I need to make an update to this library :)
>
> yo, that would be cool! :-)
>
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Apr 6, 2022, at 1:28 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2022-04-06 18:16, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> so sorry, looks like I completely f..... up here.
> >>> Sorry for the confusion, not may day...
> >>> See:
> >>> <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23665>
> >>
> >> Hehe - no worries.
> >>
> >> So in answer to your original query about wanting to be able to color
> the icons - the drawing library supports the 'currentColor' attribute in
> SVG - and this is tied to the 'backgroundColor' property of the image
> object the drawing is set on.
> >>
> >> It would only take a small tweak to Brian's extension to make this work
> - adding `fill="currentColor"` to the path node it generates.
> >>
> >> Brian's extension works by fetching the path data from the IconSVG
> library, wrapping it in the necessary SVG XML, and then compiling it with
> drawingSvgCompile.
> >>
> >> Irksomely, there does not seem to be any support for marking colors in
> SVGs as 'currentColor' in any SVG editor we've come across (unless its
> deeply buried in it). So one strategy there is making sure the colors you
> want to be configurable in the SVG are set to a known unlikely random color
> (e.g. #ABCDEF), exporting as SVG XML from the editor and then just doing a
> global find/replace of (e.g.) #ABCDEF with currentColor.
> >>
> >> Warmest Regards,
> >>
> >> Mark.
>
> Best
>
> Klaus
>
> --
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>
>
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