drawingSvgCompileIcon(pIconName) always BLACK

[Richmond Mathewson]

Thank you very much.

Best, Richmond.

On 25.10.23 17:15, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote:
> 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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