G’day,
When adjusting the colour of a map board, if you change the transparency in the HSV, HSL, RGB, or CMYK tabs, this transparency doesn’t hold. It always stays opaque, i.e. 255 in RGB.
Cheers
LB
Thus spake LB:
G’day,
When adjusting the colour of a map board, if you change the transparency
in the HSV, HSL, RGB, or CMYK tabs, this transparency doesn’t hold. It
always stays opaque, i.e. 255 in RGB.
This is because boards don’t support transparency.
–
J.
Then why is there an option to adjust the colour transparency?
I am not aware of that option, exactly where does it appear?
Within a Map window, there is a “Map Boards” option where you can add boards. When you add a board, right click it and select “Properties”. There are options to select an image, adjust the board width and height, and select the colour of the board.
When you press the colour button, a window with a number of tabs appear. If you select any of the tabs after “Swatches”, you’ll see sliders to change the colour values and a slider to change the alpha or transparency of the colour you’ve selected. The transparency value changes while you’re in this “edit” mode, but once you leave this window and go back into it, the alpha/transparency is back to 0 or 255.
Hope that helps.
Ah, right. Got you.
That is something that has been added in Java 7 to the standard Java colour picker. We have no control over it and cannot easily removed or disable the Transparency sliders.
Thus spake LB:
Then why is there an option to adjust the colour transparency?
My guess is that you’re seeing this because it’s what Java supplies
in the color picker on your platform. I don’t see any transparency
adjuster on Linux. Could you post a screenshot?
–
J.
Are you on Java 6 or 7 Joel?
Thus spake Brent Easton:
Are you on Java 6 or 7 Joel?
Java 7.
–
J.
Here is what it looks like on Win 7 with Java 7 update 25:
Thus spake LB:
Here is what it looks like on Win 7 with Java 7 update 25:
Sorry, there’s nothing I can see that we can do about this while we’re
still using Java, as the color picker Java provides doesn’t have any
knobs for adjusting the way it presents itself.
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J.