GUI for understanding Appearance attributes

Here is a little tool I’ve been working on to help me understand how the Different parts of the Appearance object interact. Things seem to be working, however some things don’t seem to have any effect and other don’t have the effect I would have expected. Perhaps I’m using them wrong or maybe there are a couple of bugs left in Xith. Any way, have fun, it is kind of neat to be able to play with things in real time, instead of having to code/run/code/run.

The enable check box at the top of each tab will add that tabs attributes to the appearance if it is checked. If not checked it is the same as setting that object to null in the Appearance object.

EDIT: Note that when it first comes up you may not see the scene graph at the top. I’m having trouble getting the canvas to update when the window opens. Just change any of the controls and it will appear.

http://www.scottshaver2000.com/files/xithgui.zip

http://www.scottshaver2000.com/files/xithgui1.jpg

http://www.scottshaver2000.com/files/xithgui2.jpg

Very cool! I will try this out tonight.

very cool indeed

Since I don’t really know what changes should affect what parts of the render I’m hoping you all will let me know if you find something that doesn’t appear to be working correctly.

maybe add background- and pop a picture in there so transpareny is alittle more informative to see working.

Could you give the settings to use so I can make sure this is working. I’ve added the background but still can’t get Transparency to do anything other than if I set the Mode to BLENDED, but then the object disappears completely. Thanks.