i’ve watched the project Puppeteer and the Ornamented Ovum project, when I try to make something similar, the canvas I make always all solid, or all transparent, which means the canvas will put a white rect in front of my background, or the image it self will be messed with background pattern. however in the two projects I mentioned at beginning, I see the egg canvas’ four corners is transparent, while inside the egg is solid. when I check the widget tab I see the egg canvas is shown as transparent.
i might missing some very basic part, since I searched through the community yet can’t find other having the same question. I’m still a newbie, plz forgive me on that.
understand! i haven’t thought about the technical difficulty of manipulating native files. your advice on using decker to build tools to help building deck is mind-blowing, yet makes a lot of sense! great thx for developing this amazing tool!
thanks! you totally anwsered my question! i haven’t really getting used to use the repl, your reply really helped a lot! now I’m thinking of using listener more frequently.
I have just started using Decker, and I am amazed by its expressiveness.
however, I cannot figure out the right way to use Canvas.
I read from the document, that I can use [edit]->[paste as a new canvas] to create a canvas with images from clipboard.
but when I copy a png image file from my Windows PC desktop, and then try to do exactly the same, I find that the bottom [paste as new canvas] is grayed out.
after a few hours, I found out that I could drag the PNG image file into decker, with the same effect as [file]->[import image], then I ctrl-c, switch to widget mode, then the [paste as new canvas] button is clickable and work like a charm.
I wonder, is this the expected way to put a PNG image file into a Decker canvas widget? if not, what’s the more convenient way? if it is so, I’m perfectly fine with it, but after several times of fiddling, I always feel there’s more things going on underneath, and I want to work with Decker the intended way.
