[scribus] another API question - quick one

[ZASKE Martin]

Dear Greg and List,

inspired by your mail, I went and created a testing document with one
object which I filled with a solid colour and experimented with
combinations of settings.

I found that in the properties window, there is Colours-tab with
Fill-tab (Fill Mode is "Solid") and I have Shade, which translates in my
.sla <PAGEOBJECT .../> to entries like this:

Shade 15%  >>>  SHADE="15"
Shade 40%  >>>  SHADE="40"
Shade 100% >>>  no entry


Then below there is Transparency-tab with Solid-tab and I have Opacity,
which translates in my .sla <PAGEOBJECT .../> to entries like this:

Opacity 100% >>> no entry
Opacity 75% >>> TransValue="0.25"
Opacity 60% >>> TransValue="0.4"
Opacity 40% >>> TransValue="0.6"
so this one is working "backwards"; because of the definitions of
opacity versus transparency I suppose


I had found in the help about the API the command that you also gave me,
namely

setFillTransparency(transparency, [name])

which I believe belongs to the first series above called "Shade".


I am still looking for a command which gives me access to the second
series called "TransValue". Why? Because in my little video-animation it
would give me a very sexy way of fading-in my text (the proverb), while
the ants are marching below.

I found another command which controls in the Text-Properties, Colour &
Effects-tab "saturation of colour of text fill" (0 - 100%) but that is
not nice for fading in, because a low saturation gives me ugly white
text on top of a coloured background. In contrast, a low opacity value
gives me almost invisible text on top of coloured background and then
gets nicely more and more visible.



I somebody could please point me to the online folders, where all the
scripter "commands" are created/hosted, I could learn to "read the
source" - not for programming, but for spying into all available
commands. Then I would not need to bother this list with my API questions.

I remember that I did this once, a good while ago, when I needed to find
details about png-bitmap exports. It took me a lot of time, but gave me
valuable details I believe.


Thanks. Sorry it got long again, subject line is now a lie...

Martin


On 01.11.2017 23:27, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 11/01/2017 04:14 PM, ZASKE Martin wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> can I have access in the scripter API to the command which is here:
>>
>> Properties window,
>>
>> Transparency tab,
>>
>> Solid tab,
>>
>> Opacity (from 0 to 100%)
>>
>>
>> I know about "import scribus",
>> I just can not find the command in my help.
>>
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> Something like this is going to be considered in the category of Set
> Object Properties.
> 
> There are two commands:
> 
> setFillTransparency(transparency, [name]) and
> setLineTransparency(transparency, [name])
> 
> I presume that transparency as a variable is a decimal (0.9 = 90%). You
> only need to specify a name if it's not the selected object you're
> operating on.
> 
> In the main window, when you set Fill transparency, you are also setting
> the transparency of the content, text if a text frame, image if an image
> frame, so presumably this works that way.
> 
> Greg
> 
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