By adjusting some colour values and the ink mode I could achieve what I think you are looking for, however I may have misunderstood, because I don’t quite understand the bit about having 50% opacity of a clear background!
Link to demo stack with my interpretation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xhjqlx0zhdeyq2f/Button%20Demo.livecode?dl=0 HTH Paul > On Mar 1, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org> > wrote: > > We looking at very simple button design: > > 1) Border color is on/white/2px > 2) background is set to clear (no color assignment and no icon) > 3) background opacity set to 50% # if we can figure out how.... > 4) Button name/label white > > Now... I realize that if # 2 above is true, then possibly, since there are no > pixels at all in the background that the algorithm might not be possible from > a video card point of view... so we *could* set the background to white and > set the opacity to a grayscale?transparency value of say... 50% but the idea > is that the text of the button name/label remains fully, 100% opaque, even > thought background has an alpha channel value (some level of transparency) > > From my fiddling... (I could be missing something) this is not possible > either with buttons of fields or graphics. > > The use case is, again, as discussed in another thread: we want visibility of > the text on top of *any* image to be visible. We do this in print all the > time... but we cannot separate the blending of the text label or text itself > and the background of a button/field in LC... at least I have not found a way. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
