Set the fillGradient ....

[Richard Gaskin]

Roger Guay wrote:

 >
 >> On Sep 1, 2016, at 5:41 AM, Randy Hengst wrote:
 >>
 >> To make this work via script, I’ve done two things… the easiest is
 >> to set the grc that I want to change to the size and position of
 >> the a grc master with the fill gradient I want to match… in this
 >> example, the script is in the grc to be changed:
 >>
 >> on mouseDown
 >>   local tStartLoc
 >>   put the loc of target into tStartLoc
 >>   set the loc of target to the loc of grc "Blue MasterChip"
 >>   set the fillGradient of target to the fillGradient of grc "Blue 
MasterChip"
 >>   set the loc of target to tStartLoc
 >> end mouseDown
 >
 > Wow, Randy, that works! Is this a workaround to a bug or what??

At the moment it's just how it works.  Some of the elements for 
gradients use positioning, which is currently most commonly handled 
throughout LiveCode in coordinates local to the card.

This may be among the cases we come across now and then where it would 
be helpful if we had coordinates local to the object.

I don't believe we have any functions or other language elements that 
use object-local coordinates, but if we did what should those look like?

But as I think about that, even if we did have something like 
localToObjectLocal that would take at least as many lines of code to 
copy gradient data from one object to another as simply setting the loc 
and having the coords update themselves.

Hmmm....

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