Icon images, hilites and inks

[David Bovill]

Looks like I'll have to use v4 then - was staying with 3.5 due to the speed
issue I reported earlier... still got to get my hands on some of these
effects :)

2009/10/14 Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:02 AM, David Bovill <david at vaudevillecourt.tv>
> wrote:
> > I've got some grey images that are used for icons - and I want to hilite
> > them with a simple coloured overlay of equivalent when the mouse rolls
> over
> > the button. I'm wandering if it is possible to use some combination of
> inks
> > and button colours to achieve this effect? The only way I can see how to
> do
> > it at the moment is either to create a coloured icon image and swap them,
> or
> > create an overlay button in front of the icon button which at least does
> not
> > require creating another set of images but seems ugly.
>
> Don't forget the new Graphic Effects. This works for me:
>
> on mouseEnter
>   set the colorOverlay["color"] of me to "red"
> end mouseEnter
>
> on mouseLeave
>       set the colorOverlay of me to empty
> end mouseLeave
>
> And for an easy 3D push-button effect, you can set the dropShadow in
> the Inspector, then try:
>
> on mouseDown
>   set the dropShadow["distance"] of me to 1
>   set the margins of me to "6,6,0,0"
> end mouseDown
>
> on mouseUp
>   set the dropShadow["distance"] of me to 5
>   set the margins of me to 4
> end mouseUp
>
> adjusting the settings to suit your icon.
>
> HTH,
> Sarah
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