[SOLVED] Re: How to... get foreground and background color in a shape?

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Montag, 12. März 2012, 17:17:29 schrieb Thorsten Zachmann:
> On Monday, March 12, 2012 16:20:03 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > hopefully soon a new version of the prison library is released, which will
> > enable me to easily control the foreground and background colors of the
> > barcode image, without doing my own QImage manipulation hacks which I
> > avoided so far, so it's just black on white for now.
> > 
> > But after an initial quick code browsing I could not see yet how
> > foreground
> > and background colors are handled in the shapes.
> > 
> > Could anybody please give me some pointers how to expose the foreground
> > and
> > background color properties of a shape, so they can be controlled by the
> > color tools e.g. in the bottom panel?
> 
> The following functions are there to set the background and border
> 
> void KoShape::setBackground(KoShapeBackground *fill)
> 
> KoShape::setBorder(KoShapeBorderModel *border)
> 
> however they might do things a bit different to what you would like to do.
> If you just want to specify 2 colors and don't want support for gradients
> e.g. and not to be able to set it like for the other shapes then you can
> also add 2 options to the option widget of the barcode.
> 
> Hope that helps,

Yes, looks good, thanks.

Bah, I only looked out for *[Cc]olor* and the resource stuff, guess that is 
why I failed on my quick search.

Adding separate color control buttons might not be a good UI I guess, so will 
see to use the KoShapeBackground and KoShapeBorderModel.

Cheers
Friedrich