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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- gradientslider.gadget/gradientslider.gadget
- gradientslider.gadget/gradientslider.gadgetlider.gadget/gradientslider.gadget
-
- NAME
- gradientslider.gadget -- create a slider with a range of colors as its
- background. (V39)
-
- FUNCTION
- The gradientslider gadget class is a type of non-proportional slider.
- The primary feature of the gradient slider is it's appearance. Unlike
- normal sliders, a gradient slider can display a "spread of colors" or
- "color gradient" in the slider container box. The "knob" or "thumb"
- of the slider appears to slide on top of this color gradient.
-
- The color gradient effect is built-up using a combination of multiple
- pens and half-tone dithering. The application must tell the slider
- exactly which pens to use in creating the gradient effect, and in
- what order to use them. Essentially, it does this by passing an
- array of pens (terminated by ~0, just like a PenSpec) to the slider.
- The first pen in the array is used as the color at the top of
- the slider (or left, if it is horizontal), and the last color in the
- array is used at the bottom (or right). The other pens will be
- used at evenly spaced intervals in between. Dithering is used to
- smoothly fade between the pens, allowing the illusion of a continuous
- change in color.
-
- TAGS
- GRAD_MaxVal (ULONG) - Set the maximum value that the slider can
- represent, in the range 0..$FFFF. Default for this tag is
- $FFFF. Applicability is (ISGU). (V39)
-
- GRAD_CurVal (ULONG) - Set or get the current value of the slider, in
- the range 0..$FFFF. Default for this tag is 0. Applicability is
- (ISGNU). (V39)
-
- GRAD_SkipVal (ULONG) - Set the amount by which the slider should
- advance whenever the user clicks on either side of the knob.
- Default for this tag is $1111. Applicability is (ISGU).
- (V39)
-
- GRAD_KnobPixels (UWORD) - Set the size of the knob in pixels.
- Default for this tag is 5. Applicability is (I).
- (V39)
-
- GRAD_PenArray (UWORD *) - Specifies an array of pens that the slider
- should use to create its gradient background. The array can
- contain any number of pens, and is terminated with a pen
- value of ~0. These pens can be allocated as shared, since
- their RGB value is not altered by the slider. The first pen
- is used on the top or left of the slider, and the last pen is
- used on the bottom or right. All other pens are evenly spaced
- out and used in between. Dithering is used between the pens
- to enhance the smoothness of the gradient transition.
-
- A NULL pen array causes the background of the slider to be
- rendered in the screen's background color. A pen array
- containing only a single pen causes the background to be
- rendered using that pen.
-
- Default for this tag is NULL. Applicability is (ISU).
- (V39)
-
- PGA_FREEDOM (ULONG) - Determines the orientation of the slider. This
- can be LORIENT_HORIZ for a horizontal slider, or LORIENT_VERT
- for a vertical one. Default for this tag is LORIENT_HORIZ.
- Applicability is (I). (V39)
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