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Creating a disappearing Add Image Button

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August 27, 2020
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Hello there,

I'm trying to create a form that has a labeled image insertion section. To do this, I put text instructions "Click here to Add Image" in the middle of where I want the image, then I added the Image field with "no fill" on top of that text. This worked great when I inserted a jpeg file because the image covered up my text. But then I tried inserting a pdf into this space, and my "Click here" text shows right through. (see image). How do I make it so that when someone inserts the image, the text disappears? Thank you!

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You can change the fill color of the field when it is clicked, like this:

event.target.fillColor = color.white;

if (event.target.buttonImportIcon()!=0) event.target.fillColor = color.transparent;

The last line of code will change it back to transparent if the user didn't select an image or it failed for some reason.

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Worked perfectly. Thanks!

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You can change the fill color of the field when it is clicked, like this:

event.target.fillColor = color.white;

if (event.target.buttonImportIcon()!=0) event.target.fillColor = color.transparent;

The last line of code will change it back to transparent if the user didn't select an image or it failed for some reason.

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What if the background colour is a specific RGB off white, how would you set the fillColour value?

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You can specify a specific RGB value like this:

event.target.fillColor = ["RGB", 0.25, 0.9, 1];

Notice the values are between 0 and 1, not 0 and 255, as in other places.

To convert the latter to the former just divide your values by 255.

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At the image field use a image with the text "Click here to Add Image" .