fillFore, backgroundColor?

[thatkeith]

Silly question I'm sure, but why is the fillFore of an object controlled in the Inspector by the button called backgroundColor? Especially when there is such a thing as foregroundColor, which isn't a synonym for fillFore? #confused

[dunbarx]

Hi.

According to the dictionary, "fillFore" is indeed a synonym for foregroundColor.

What button are you referring to?

Craig

[thatkeith]

If I set the fillFore of something to a color the Inspector palette icon here, second down in the second column, shows the color.
If I set the backgroundColor of something the same icon shows the color.
If I hover over the button icon I get "backgroundColor" shown in the tooltip.
If I set the foregroundColor of an object the border – not the fill – changes color, and the FIRST icon in the second column shows the color. So fillFore seems *not* to be a synonym of foregroundColor, at least in practice.

I know what to use to make things work, but when I look at the logic it is... confusing.

[jacque]

It looks like a very specific engine bug, maybe because fewer people use "fillFore" and so no one has ever caught it. If you instead use "foreColor" or "foregroundColor" it behaves as you'd expect. So, it appears the engine isn't correctly translating the synonym, which you might want to report. Some engineer somewhere had a thinko.

[thatkeith]

I will report a bug if I can get my head around what to say! Perhaps someone can help? Try this: make three image objects, three graphic objects and three buttons. Make the graphic objects opaque. Run the following lines:

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set the borderColor of image 1 to "red"
set the foregroundColor of image 2 to "red"
set the fillFore of image 3 to "red"

set the borderColor of graphic 1 to "red"
set the foregroundColor of graphic 2 to "red"
set the fillFore of graphic 3 to "red"

set the borderColor of button 1 to "red"
set the foregroundColor of button 2 to "red"
set the fillFore of button 3 to "red"

Then select each one in turn and look at the Inspector palette's Colors & Patterns pane, and also the object's appearance on the card. There is *some* consistency. But it isn't complete, and the Dictionary doesn't seem to help.

[jacque]

I think that would be an excellent report. They would like you to create and upload the sample stack though, they need something to look at immediately so they can quickly verify the problem.

[thatkeith]

Thanks.
Done, bug 11902.

[thatkeith]

Bug confirmed. Order will return to the universe.

[jacque]

Wow, you saved the universe! Thank you.

[thatkeith]