text.brightness property

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05/31/2018

[The Windows Gadget Platform/Sidebar is available for use in the operating systems specified in the Requirements section. It may be altered or unavailable in subsequent versions. ]

Gets or sets the brightness of the g:text element.

This property is read/write.

Syntax

brightness = text.brightness
text.brightness = brightness

Property value

A Floating-point that specifies or receives the "white" level applied to the target element. The value ranges from 0.0 to 100.0.

(0.0)

Default. No brightness effect applied. Text is not modified.

(1.0)

Brightness effect of 100%. Text has no color, or contrast; it is opaque but effectively blank (white).

(100.0)

Brightness effect of 1%.

Remarks

The opacity of the g:text element must be set to a value of at least 1 for the brightness effect to be visible.

Examples

The following example demonstrates how to add a brightness effect to the g:text element from a gadget script file.

\\ imgBackground is the value of the 'id' attribute for the g:background element.
var txtBrightness = imgBackground.addTextObject("test", "Verdana", 25, "Red", intX, intY);
txtBrightness.brightness = 1.0;

Requirements


Minimum supported client	Windows Vista [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2008 [desktop apps only]
End of client support	Windows 7
End of server support	Windows Server 2008
IDL	Sidebar.idl
DLL	Sidebar.Exe (version 1.00 or later)

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