Overriding colors in cloned objects
Hi,
I am trying to create a set of cloned objects all of which have the same (inherited) fill color, but have different stroke colors. According to all available documentation, the 'Unset color' means that the fill or stroke color will be inherited and this seems to work perfectly. However, if one of cloned objects is set to a specific color nothing appears to happen. The object colors shown on the status bar seem to show the correct information: fill is 'unset', stroke is red. The XML looks correct too: xlink:href to the 'parent' object and 'style' containing 'stroke:red'.
Have I missed something?
Many thanks,
Hello Dave,
The red stroke will only show if you remove the stroke from the parent object. You will have to do this from the "style" parameter in the XML of the parent, not from the dialog. If you set the stroke to "X" from the dialog, then the XML becomes "stroke:none" which is inherited by both children, overwriting the red stroke. If you remove "stroke:black" from the parent, you get to see the red stroke in the child.
In my opinion, this is another area where the GUI is being a bit uninformative, but I'm not sure how all this could be shown without confusing the user further.
Stathis
Dave Lawrence wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to create a set of cloned objects all of which have the same (inherited) fill color, but have different stroke colors. According to all available documentation, the 'Unset color' means that the fill or stroke color will be inherited and this seems to work perfectly. However, if one of cloned objects is set to a specific color nothing appears to happen. The object colors shown on the status bar seem to show the correct information: fill is 'unset', stroke is red. The XML looks correct too: xlink:href to the 'parent' object and 'style' containing 'stroke:red'.
Have I missed something?
Many thanks,
On 5/24/07, Stathis Sideris <im@...2253...> wrote:
Hello Dave,
The red stroke will only show if you remove the stroke from the parent object. You will have to do this from the "style" parameter in the XML of the parent, not from the dialog.
Yes you can do this from the Fill and Stroke dialog. No need to go into XML. Use the button with the ? sign.
bulia byak wrote:
On 5/24/07, Stathis Sideris <im@...2253...> wrote:
Hello Dave,
The red stroke will only show if you remove the stroke from the parent object. You will have to do this from the "style" parameter in the XML of the parent, not from the dialog.
Yes you can do this from the Fill and Stroke dialog. No need to go into XML. Use the button with the ? sign.
Great! I always wondered what the "?" button did. :-)
Hi, thanks for replies,
This isn't quite what I meant -- I want the parent object to act like a 'default', i.e. have black stroke and green fill, then clones to inherit these colours, *BUT* with the option of changing the fill/stroke on some of them. The help for "?" implies that this is the way round it's meant to work "make it undefined so it can be inherited", i.e. "inherit if '?'", but use the local colour if it is given.
In my original clones.svg file, I expect the top (parent) object to be green/black, the middle to be green/red (with an overridden stroke) and the bottom to be green/black again as it's just a clone of the top one with both fill and stroke 'unset'
Many thanks,
On 5/25/07, Stathis Sideris <im@...2253...> wrote:
bulia byak wrote:
On 5/24/07, Stathis Sideris <im@...2253...> wrote:
Hello Dave,
The red stroke will only show if you remove the stroke from the parent object. You will have to do this from the "style" parameter in the XML of the parent, not from the dialog.
Yes you can do this from the Fill and Stroke dialog. No need to go into XML. Use the button with the ? sign.
Great! I always wondered what the "?" button did. :-)
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On 5/25/07, Dave Lawrence <mail.dave.lawrence@...2040...> wrote:
Hi, thanks for replies,
This isn't quite what I meant -- I want the parent object to act like a 'default', i.e. have black stroke and green fill, then clones to inherit these colours, *BUT* with the option of changing the fill/stroke on some of them.
This is not possible in SVG.
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