GuiSwatchButtonCtrl

A button that is used to represent color; often used in correlation with a color picker.

Inherit:
GuiButtonBaseCtrl

Description

A swatch button is a push button that uses its color field to designate the color drawn over an image, on top of a button.

The color itself is a float value stored inside the GuiSwatchButtonCtrl::color field. The texture path that represents the image underlying the color is stored inside the GuiSwatchButtonCtrl::gridBitmap field. The default value assigned toGuiSwatchButtonCtrl::color is “1 1 1 1”( White ). The default/fallback image assigned to GuiSwatchButtonCtrl::gridBitmap is “tools/gui/images/transp_grid”.

Example:

// Create a GuiSwatchButtonCtrl that calls randomFunction with its current color when clicked
%swatchButton = newGuiSwatchButtonCtrl()
{
   profile = "GuiInspectorSwatchButtonProfile";
   command = "randomFunction( $ThisControl.color );";
};

Methods

void GuiSwatchButtonCtrl::setColor(string newColor)

Set the color of the swatch control.

Parameters:newColor – The new color string given to the swatch control in float format “r g b a”.

Fields

ColorF GuiSwatchButtonCtrl::color

The foreground color of GuiSwatchButtonCtrl .

string GuiSwatchButtonCtrl::gridBitmap

The bitmap used for the transparent grid.