Button colors

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1

How do you specify the colors in a GUI script for buttons, or text?
glColor3f doesn’t do anything…

2

That’s works for me:
glColor3f(1.0,1.0,1.0)
gives a white…

jm

3

As far as I know, this only affects the GL functions and not the Blender.Draw buttons, right?

Martin

4

glColor3f does not have any effect on text defined with Blender.Draw Text() or Button() functions…All I want to do is make some buttons that are brown, or terquoise or purple in addition to the grey ones like the edit buttons in blender’s own interface. Not possible?

5

Well, this seems to work fine for me. A small sample follows (I just copied it from a script of mine, then cut it down a little)


import Blender
from Blender.Draw import * #importing modules...

def gui(): #This part draws the GUI
  glClear(GL_BUFFER_COLOR_BIT)
  glClearColor(0.7,0.7,0.7) #Sets the background colour
  glColor3f(0.2, 0.2, 0.2) #Sets the pointer colour
  glRasterPos2i(10, 10) #Sets the pointer position
  Text('This can be whatever the hell you want it to be') #and...creates the text!

def event(evt, val): #this part quits when escape's pressed
  if(evt==ESCKEY and not val):Exit()

Register(gui, event) #this part just makes it all work!

Sorry if the code seems a little complicated or just plain daft to some of you more experienced programmers- I taught myself Python, so it probably seems so inelegant to some of you…

Anyway, I hope this helps.

LethalSideParting

6

The glColor state controls the color for Draw.Text(),
but not for the buttons… the methods to change their
draw color&style were never exposed… sorry :confused:

7

Another job for the Blender sources, then!! I’ll add it to my list…

8

well, someone with enough time could have just made a higher level API around the BGL module with their on button definition and mouse handling for the button press. I did something like this for the Dynamica GUI, it’s not really hard to do, but I guess that with the open source, it on’t be needed anymore. In the old days, there was BEX that worked like that too :wink:

Martin