Background color of objects on canvas

Alessandro Fogar sfogar at libero.it
Sat Sep 30 22:42:10 CEST 2000


Hi Karl,

I'll try your GTK version...

many thanks

Alessandro Fogar

Karl MacMillan wrote:

> It is not really possible to do this because the objects don't really have
> a background - they are just lines and text.  It should be possible to
> make PD use TK canvas polygons so that they have a background color (like
> Guenter's objects) but there are some issues with the stacking of the
> objects.  Notice that since the current objects are 'transparent' when
> they overlap nothing is done about the order that they are drawn.  PD will
> need a notion of depth in addition to horizontal/vertical position before
> this will be possible in a nice way.  It would be nice, though.
>
> Karl
>
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, sfogar at libero.it wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We know how to change the background color of canvas, is it possible to
> > change the background color of objects on canvas in a similar way ?
> >
> > I'd like to have a grey canvas with white objects.
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Alessandro Fogar
> >
> >
>
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> | Karl W. MacMillan                                 |
> | Computer Music Department                         |
> | Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University |
> | karlmac at peabody.jhu.edu                           |
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