[Interest] Draw a shadow around a Rectangle using DropShadow. Should be possible, right?

[Mark Gaiser]

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 February 2014 19:59, Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 5 February 2014 23:35, Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I can't get it to work with a rectangle..
>>>>
>>>> import QtQuick 2.0
>>>> import QtGraphicalEffects 1.0
>>>>
>>>> Rectangle {
>>>>     width: 800
>>>>     height: 600
>>>>
>>>>     DropShadow {
>>>>         horizontalOffset: 3
>>>>         verticalOffset: 3
>>>>         radius: 16
>>>>         samples: 24
>>>>         color: "#80000000"
>>>>         width: blackRect.width
>>>>         height: blackRect.height
>>>>         anchors.centerIn: parent
>>>>
>>>>         Rectangle {
>>>>             id: blackRect
>>>>             width: 500
>>>>             height: 50
>>>>             color: "black"
>>>>         }
>>>>     }
>>>> }
>>>
>>> Works for me. I copied your code exactly; you can see the result in
>>> the attachment.
>>
>> I just noticed that as well. On linux it works a lot less stable. Aka,
>> i have to start the application about 10x before i finally see one
>> where the shader effects (DropShadow in this case) are applied.
>>
>> Also note that you might have a "sort of shadow". It is by no means a
>> shadow. It's just a "copy" of the rectangle in the color set in
>> DropShadow. The actual shadow effect (smooth blurred grey.. don't
>> really know how to call it) isn't applied.
>
> Bug report time :-D Would you like to do the honours?
>
> Looks like there are two bugs here: 1) Effects don't always get
> applied on your Linux machine, and 2) DropShadow's doesn't work
> properly (on Rectangles?)
>
> I didn't notice the lack of blurriness until you mentioned it -- never
> used DropShadow myself.
>
>
> Regards,
> Sze-Howe

Will do.
Making reports now.

Generously using your screenshot :)