drawingSvgCompileIcon(pIconName) always BLACK

[Brian Milby]

This code is MIT license, so freely usable.  It does rely on code from HQ, but should be usable on either the open source or commercial versions.

Brian Milby
brian at milby7.com

> On Oct 25, 2023, at 4:36 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I should be grateful if you could explain the licensing on your work.
> 
> Best, Richmond.
> 
>> On 25.10.23 3:44, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote:
>> 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
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Klaus Major
>>> https://www.major-k.de
>>> https://www.major-k.de/bass
>>> klaus at major-k.de
>>> 
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