[Newbies] Morph Drop Shadows

[Bert Freudenberg]

In that case it's surely simplest to add the mouse handling to your  
pentomino tiles.

- Bert -

On May 20, 2007, at 21:01 , David H. Shanabrook wrote:

> I am experimenting with geometry tutors, such as pentominos.  when  
> trying to fit shapes precisely together the shadow is very  
> disturbing, it is hard to know what is the shadow and what is the  
> shape, especially for kids.
>
> dhs
>
>
> On 20 May 2007, at 14:51, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
>> The Hand draws a shadow of all morphs it is holding. You could  
>> implement the dragging of your morphs yourself and not leave that  
>> to HandMorph. Or hack HandMorph>>fullDrawOn: method to not draw  
>> the shadow (possibly in a subclass).
>>
>> May I ask what you need this for?
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>> On May 20, 2007, at 19:38 , David H. Shanabrook wrote:
>>
>>> Subbu
>>>
>>> It is the temporary shadow that appears when I pick the morph  
>>> that I want to eliminate.  I am using 3.9 although I can switch  
>>> to an older version if it would help.
>>>
>>> dhs
>>>
>>> On 20 May 2007, at 13:23, subbukk wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sunday 20 May 2007 10:07 pm, David H. Shanabrook wrote:
>>>>> Can I change the pick up a morph so that it doesn't have a  
>>>>> shadow?  I
>>>>> tried in the morph menu to drop shadow: show shadow, but this  
>>>>> doesn't
>>>>> work.  It doesn't affect the morph  whether the show shadow is
>>>>> checked or not.
>>>> Which version is your image? For drop shadow to be visible, make  
>>>> sure the drop
>>>> shadow color is different from the background and the offset is  
>>>> non-zero.
>>>>
>>>> The drop shadow (in halo menu) is different from the temporary  
>>>> shadow that
>>>> appears when you 'pick' the morph.
>>>>
>>>> Regards .. Subbu
>>