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ScriptUI: Change element back to default color

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November 4, 2014
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I have a script in which I am changing the color of StaticText, but later want to change it back to the default color. Is there a way to set it back to "default", or do I need to hard code in a color that is the same as the default? The problem is that hard coding in a number will no longer dynamically react to changes in the UI color.

var myWindGfx = myWind.grp.bottom.eight.update.graphics;
myWindGfx.foregroundColor = myWindGfx.newPen (myWindGfx.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, [1, 0, 0], 1);

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Gabriel23717186abix

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If you can't change to defaul easy, why you do not use a new brush that is transprent 100

myWindGfx.foregroundColor = myWindGfx.newPen (myWindGfx.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, [1, 0, 0], 1);

myWindGfx.foregroundColor = myWindGfx.newPen (myWindGfx.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, [1, 0, 0], 0);

i think this can be a cheat workaround

I hope i am not mistaken (not a advanced user)

UQg

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Bump.

Have you found an answer? I'm also interested in this.

- A newly created ScriptUI element w has:

typeof (w.graphics.foregroundColor) === 'undefined',

so it is not possible to store the default color for later use...

- To revert back to original, none of this works:

w.graphics.foregroundColor = void(0); // error

w.graphics.foregroundColor = null; // error (sometimes crash...)

w.graphics.foregroundColor = w.graphics.newPen(); // error (the first 2 arguments are mandatory, so there is indeed no way using PenType.SOLID_COLOR)

So apparently the only way would be to know the magic piece of string that would nicely complete w.graphics.newPen(w.graphics.PenType.THEME_COLOR, ?);

If someone knows ... { ! }

Xavier

Trevor:

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Hi

= null works in cs but not cc

THEME_COLOR works in PS an AI but not ID :-(

The only hack is to set the background color of the whole window and make sure that all non-enabled states / images / objects keep to that color.

Trevor

Trevor:

Legend

On second thoughts on cc you could fetch the UI setting and somehow calibrate that to a rgb value for the shades of grey to black.

In Practice most of the UI values will probably full into one of the 4 standards and there are only a possible 100 values so the calibration should be easy.

Of course this would not be updated on a palette unless you used an on idle.

You would only have to set the value of the relevant object

HTH

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jeremyIFAuthor

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Found what seems close, but can't get it to work.

Page 160 of http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/aftereffects/scripting/JavaScript-Tools-Guide-CC.pdf mentions "ScriptUIGraphics.PenType.THEME_COLOR", but no matter how i use it I get an error. Anyone have experience with THEME_COLOR?

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