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Jim_Arbon
Community Member
9 months ago

New JavaScript API - set opacity not working

The new JavaScript API is pretty great! I've already improved on a funky new project that I'm working on. I have found a small bug though - setting the opacity (or alpha) property of an object does...
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ZevanRosser
Staff
9 months ago

Jim_Arbon this does appear to be a bug, I encountered it on Thursday actually but it was on a very strange project so I wasn't 100% sure that it was across the board (it is). The clean workaround is to use "style" 

object('6AGhckCeMO2').style.opacity = 0;

If you need the opacity to resume you can use (instead of 0):

object('6AGhckCeMO2').opacity = 0.001;

Thankfully this is an easy issue to resolve and will certainly be fixed in the next update.