Re: [NTG-context] METAPOST/MetaFun withtransparency doesn't accept my pair primary argument, what am I doing wrong?

9 Apr 2020


      On 4/9/2020 4:58 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
...
\starttext
\startMPpage[instance=doublefun]
vardef Foo( expr w, h, fillColor, fillTransparency) =
   show "FOO:", w, h, fillColor, fillTransparency;
   save pic; picture pic;
   save circ; path circ;
   circ := (fullcircle xyscaled (h,h));
   pic := image (
     fill (circ shifted (w-h/2,-h/2)) withcolor fillColor 
withtransparency fillTransparency;
   );
   pic
enddef;
pic := Foo( 150, 50, (0.686,1.000,1.000), (1,1.000));
draw pic;
\stopMPpage
\stoptext
Maybe this definition is better then but I need to test it more

\starttext
\startMPpage[instance=doublefun]

def withtransparency expr t =
     if pair t :
         withprescript "tr_alternative="  & decimal 
transparency_alternative_to_number(xpart t)
         withprescript "tr_transparency=" & decimal ypart t
     else :
         mfun_with_transparency (transparency_alternative_to_number(t))
     fi
enddef ;

def mfun_with_transparency (expr a) expr t =
     withprescript "tr_alternative="  & decimal a
     withprescript "tr_transparency=" & decimal t
enddef ;

vardef Foo ( expr w, h, fillColor, fillTransparency) =
   image (
     fill fullcircle xyscaled (h,h) shifted (w-h/2,-h/2)
         withcolor fillColor
         withtransparency fillTransparency
     ;
   )
enddef;

vardef FooX ( expr w, h, fillColor) =
   image (
     fill fullcircle xyscaled (h,h) shifted (w-h/2,-h/2)
         withcolor fillColor
         withtransparency (normaltransparent, .5)
     ;
   )
enddef;

vardef FooY ( expr w, h, fillColor) =
   image (
     fill fullcircle xyscaled (h,h) shifted (w-h/2,-h/2)
         withcolor fillColor
         withtransparency normaltransparent .5
     ;
   )
enddef;

draw Foo  ( 350, 50, (0.5,1,0), (1,.5));
draw FooX ( 250, 50, (1,0.5,1));
draw FooY ( 150, 50, (1,1,0.5));

\stopMPpage
\stoptext


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