Recomputing useMPgraphic in footers

Recomputing useMPgraphic in footers

[David Antos]

	Hello,

I have

\defineoverlay[Wave][\useMPgraphic{Wave}]

\startuseMPgraphic{Wave}
...
\stopuseMPgraphic

\setupbackgrounds[footer][text][background={Wave}]

The problem is that the graphics is not re-computed on every page,
although I pretty convinced it should.

On the opposite, when I set
\setupbackgrounds[text][text][background={Wave}]
it works perfectly well. (The difference is in [footer] vs. [text].)

An ugly workaround is to call \setupbackgrounds on every page, but it's
not nice at all. What went wrong?

Thanks,
D.A.

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Re: Recomputing useMPgraphic in footers

[Taco Hoekwater]

David Antos wrote:
> 	Hello,
> 
> I have
> 
> \defineoverlay[Wave][\useMPgraphic{Wave}]
> 
> \startuseMPgraphic{Wave}
> ...
> \stopuseMPgraphic
> 
> \setupbackgrounds[footer][text][background={Wave}]

You need an additional

   \setupbackgrounds[state=repeat]

here.

Greetings, Taco

Re: Recomputing useMPgraphic in footers

[Hans Hagen]

David Antos wrote:
> 	Hello,
> 
> I have
> 
> \defineoverlay[Wave][\useMPgraphic{Wave}]
> 
> \startuseMPgraphic{Wave}
> ...
> \stopuseMPgraphic
> 
> \setupbackgrounds[footer][text][background={Wave}]
> 
> The problem is that the graphics is not re-computed on every page,
> although I pretty convinced it should.
> 
> On the opposite, when I set
> \setupbackgrounds[text][text][background={Wave}]
> it works perfectly well. (The difference is in [footer] vs. [text].)
> 
> An ugly workaround is to call \setupbackgrounds on every page, but it's
> not nice at all. What went wrong?

as already mentioned (by taco): \setupbackgrounds[state=repeat]

only page and text area backgrounds are recalculated each page (otherwise the 
speed penalty is too big]

an option is to do something:

\setupbackgrounds[page][background=PageBackground]
\defineoverlay[PageBackground][\reuseMPgraphic{PageBackground}]

\startreusableMPgraphic{PageBackground}
   StartPage ;
     fill Field[Text][Footer] withcolor red ;
   StopPage ;
\stopreusableMPgraphic

(see metafun manual for details on the page stuff)

Hans


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