Scripting gradients

[John Allijn]

It works! :)



On Sep 5, 2012, at 12:17, Guglielmo Braguglia <guglielmo at braguglia.ch> wrote:

> John ... your values are already *RGB* values, just differently written ... ;-)
> 
> E.g.  ... *#FF7F00* is made by three couples of values : FF (/the R value/) 7F (/the G value/) 00 (/the B value/) just written in hexadecimal ... convert to the decimal value and ... that's all.
> 
> So  #FF7F00  is just 255, 127, 0 :-)
> 
> Guglielmo
> 
> 
> On 05.09.2012 11:58, John Allijn wrote:
>> I think i can get it working, but i'm strugling with the color-coding.
>> My colors are all in a hex format like #FFFFFF.
>> How do I convert that to RGB values? I can't find a command for this in the help.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 5, 2012, at 11:00, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Sorry, make that:
>>> 
>>> put theArray["ramp"] into theVar   (no object reference needed)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Recently, I wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Gradient settings are stored in an array property called the fillGradient.
>>>> The color data is stored the "ramp" index.  So to get the colors, you could
>>>> script something like:
>>>> put the fillGradient of graphic "myBox" into theArray
>>>> put theArray["ramp"] of graphic "myBox" into theVar
>>>> 
>>>> The variable theVar will contain each color of the gradient, listed one per
>>>> line.
>>>> 
>>>> After making changes to the colors, you load the color data back into the
>>>> array, and set the fillGradient of the graphic to the array:
>>>> put theVar into theArray["ramp"]
>>>> set the fillGradient of graphic "myBox" to theArray
>>>> 
>>>> See the fillGradient entry in the dictionary for more info.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Scott Rossi
>>>> Creative Director
>>>> Tactile Media, UX Design
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Recently, John Allijn wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I have a rectangle that I filled with a gradient in the inspector.
>>>>> Is there a way to script the colors of this gradient?
>>>>> I want to let the user pick a color for a color theme and have the gradient
>>>>> match that.
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Scott Rossi
>>> Creative Director
>>> Tactile Media, UX Design
>>> 
>>> 
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