How to make visible and invisble the 'Decal Image' programatically?

[Yogesh_Redemptor]

Hi All,

I do want to make invisible the decal images of boolean controls.

How I can do this programatically?

Is there any property node is available in scripting?

Thank you,

Yogesh Redemptor

[Eden_S]

Hi Yogesh,

You can use the paintbrush tool in the Tools Palette to set colours of front panel objects. To open the tools palette navigate to "View -> Tools Palette". You can then use the paintbrush by selecting a colour and left clicking on the control you wish to change.

The screenshot attached shows how to set the current colour to transparent.

Many thanks,

[zou]

Eden,

Yogesh wants to do this programmatically.

How I can do this programatically?

[JÞB]

You will need to "cheat" on this one since you can't Show/Hide the glyph at run time.  The simplest means would be to have two buttons one with the glyph one without one off screen and swap their positions when you want to change appearance.  Handle both value change events in the same case.

[billko]

Edit - Jeff's answer was better than mine.

[billko]

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@JÞB wrote:

You will need to "cheat" on this one since you can't Show/Hide the glyph at run time.  The simplest means would be to have two buttons one with the glyph one without one off screen and swap their positions when you want to change appearance.  Handle both value change events in the same case.

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Could you also have them in the same place and hide/show them as needed?  All you need then is a boolean and its NOT to control the show/hide properties?

[Mark_Yedinak]

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@billko wrote:

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@JÞB wrote:

You will need to "cheat" on this one since you can't Show/Hide the glyph at run time.  The simplest means would be to have two buttons one with the glyph one without one off screen and swap their positions when you want to change appearance.  Handle both value change events in the same case.

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Could you also have them in the same place and hide/show them as needed?  All you need then is a boolean and its NOT to control the show/hide properties?

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Yes, that wouls be what I would recommend.

 Yet another alternative is to make your button transparent and place a picture control under it. You can then change the picture to whatever you want and you have a single button to manage in terms of the events.

[JÞB]

Show hide might have some trouble dropping through the top one to hit the bottom when the top is hidden .)

[Darin.K]

Personally I like to use invisible Tab controls instead of futzing with positions and visibility. 

[JÞB]

I just hate tabs. Especially when I might hands off refs to objects on tabs. Too many bad memory of refs going stale when the tab changed. Maybe that's better now but, I still avoid them.