Gradients in subshapes

[Uffe]

Hey everybody,


I've got this stereotype with an unpleasantly large number of tagged values, which I need to display in different boxes in a single shape. I'm using subshapes with rectangles in a top-down layout.

Problem is, the color gradient is applied separately in each subshape, so I end up with a very stripy-looking beast which is hard to read.

Is there a way around this?

I'm looking for something I can set in the shape script or the diagram definition, but I'm coming up empty. I can minimize the effect by using white as the fill color, but I can't make it go away completely.

I'm on 11.1.1112.


Cheers,


/Uffe

[qwerty]

There was an option somewhere in the depth of the options to turn of the gradient completely. Besides using white that would have been my only escape.

q.

[Uffe]

Yeah, but that's at the user end. I want to control it in the MDG Technology.

/U

[Uffe]

Hmmm... Maybe there ought to be support in an MDG Technology to control user-side options....  

[qwerty]

Backdoor programming via the registry and then restart EA. Nuke 'em all.

q.

[KP]

One thing you could try is to wrap all your drawing commands in a single startpath-endpath block and fill once at the end. Something like this:

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shape main
{
      startpath();
      rectangle(0,0,50,50);
      rectangle(50,50,100,100);
      endpath();
      fillandstrokepath();
}

[Uffe]

That doesn't seem to make any difference, but thanks anyway.

/U

[Uffe]

Oh dear.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

What is a rectangle?  

In your subshape,

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LineTo(100, 0);
LineTo(100, 100);
LineTo(0, 100);
LineTo(0, 0);
Hey presto, rectangle, no fill, no gradient.
Ta-daa!  

Happy weekend, viewers.

/UffePuff

[Geert Bellekens]

Sometimes you can't see the trees because of the forest  

Geert