text.blur 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 level of blur applied to the g:text element.

This property is read/write.

Syntax

iblur = text.blur
text.blur = iblur

Property value

An Integer that specifies or receives the blur radius (or boundary). The value ranges from 0 to 100.

(0)

Default. No blur effect applied. The target element is not modified.

(100)

Full blur effect applied.

Remarks

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

Examples

The following example demonstrates how to add a blur 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 txtBlur = imgBackground.addTextObject("test", "Verdana", 25, "Red", intX, intY);
txtBlur.blur = 10;

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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