[Xerte] Re: change background colour to white?

Tue Jan 25 20:41:50 GMT 2011

Ok found an answer that works e.g. rootIcon.themes.getSelectedItem().label);
not sure if there's a better option but this works fine for my purposes.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 25 January 2011 17:14
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: change background colour to white?

Hi Julian

quick question - what property can I check for to detect exactly what theme
is chosen by the user? Can't seem to find it.

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 25 January 2011 12:17
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: change background colour to white?

That's great Julian many thanks and the sample is really useful. I can see
that most of the time drawing the gradient would be best but also the event
detection could be used to load different images. Great stuff.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 25 January 2011 11:13
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: change background colour to white?

Sorry, sample is attached,

From: Tenney Julian 
Sent: 25 January 2011 11:12
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Re: change background colour to white?

rootIcon.onThemeChange

then you can draw the gradient yourself using beginGradientFill() and pick
the styles out for the gradient colours. beginGradientFill I remember as a
bit tricky to get your head around.

Does this which works OK - play with the aprms in beginGradientFill to
change the ratio, alphas etc. 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 25 January 2011 10:57
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: change background colour to white?

Brilliant thanks! The solution works great!

I tried loads of stuff too before posting my message below and kinda glad it
wasn't something stupid I was doing. ;-)

I'm using this in this instance to put a gradient behind a logo on the title
bar. Which works great. http://130.88.204.160/itq/xerte/play_11

Ideally I should add some conditional code to hide the gradient if a user
changes the theme to something other than the default and then show again if
the user changes back to the default. Is there an existing listener/function
I can use for that?

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 25 January 2011 10:02
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: change background colour to white?

Curious. I tried it in a blank rlo and couldn't get it to work either. I
have no idea why and I expected it to. I've debugged everything and see that
rootIcon exists, that loadMovie is one of it's methods, the path is correct,
the image exists and the movie clip is being created, because I drew a red
rectangle into it. So why won't it loadMovie()? loadMOvie works everywhere
else. Timing issue I guess, but even if I put the code under a button and
ran it, it wouldn't work. I'm stumped.

//SOLUTION - Using MovieClipLoader:

container = rootIcon.createEmptyMovieClip("container",99);

mcLoader = new MovieClipLoader();

mcLoader.loadClip(FileLocation + 'media/DSC_0137.JPG', container);

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 24 January 2011 20:47
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: change background colour to white?

I've tried this even with a brand new non template LO and still can't get
anything to load.

Should this work in the setup icon? e.g.
http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/img/tgrab-j8.png

Wasting too much time and can't spot what's wrong. There was a typo in the
example below but I've corrected that and still can't get the image to load.
:-(

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 24 January 2011 16:04
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: change background colour to white?

Does rootIcon exist when that code executes? If it's in the first script
icon, rootIcon doesn't exist yet.

Use one of the init events (rootIcon.onInit), or put code in the entry
frame,

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 24 January 2011 15:16
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: change background colour to white?

no not sure it does - at least can't get it to work. :-(

On a slightly unrelated note but for the same installation ideally I need to
draw or load a gradient across the first part of the title bar. I've been
trying the following to load a png which I think is your code or a snippet
from the mailing list:

rootIcon.createEmptyMovieClip('myCustomGraphic',++rootIcon.levels);//creates
a new movie clip

rootIcon.myCustomFGraphic.loadMovie(templatePath + 'common/mygraphic.png');
//loads your graphic 

rootIcon.myCustomGraphic._x = 0; 

rootIcon.myCustomGraphic._y = 0; //positions the graphic

I've tried a fixed link to the graphic online and also FileLocation but the
graphic isn't appearing. Bound to be something stupid?

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 24 January 2011 14:00
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: change background colour to white?

stageAlpha?

But not sure that exists.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 24 January 2011 13:53
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: change background colour to white?

ah yes thanks Julian that works e.g. setting to 0xFFFFFF changes it to
white.

Is there any way it can be transparent? 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 24 January 2011 10:04
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: change background colour to white?

stageColour?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 21 January 2011 20:21
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Subject: [Xerte] change background colour to white?

I'm sure we've discussed this years ago and I'm sure I've even done it but
can't remember or find where I have :-(

Where/how do I change the dark grey area around an 800x600 LO (e.g here
<http://mitchellmedia.co.uk/img/631ff65bea884616b54675bb87f3b42c.png> ) to
white or a different colour?

Cheers

Ron

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