Why does this recording not capture a colour swap?

[terrypin]

I posted originally here:
viewtopic.php?f=56&t=66091

But I did eventually succeed in consistently reproducing the effect reasonably closely.

So I then attempted to record it with the following script. But it failed, not creating the second edge.

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from JascApp import *
# See post at https://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=66091
# And then at
# Place the selection and then run the script
# BUT, unlike the manual recording, this doesn't add the black edge

def ScriptProperties():
    return {
        'Author': u'Terry',
        'Copyright': u'',
        'Description': u'',
        'Host': u'Paint Shop Pro',
        'Host Version': u'8.10'
        }

def Do(Environment):
    # EnableOptimizedScriptUndo
    App.Do( Environment, 'EnableOptimizedScriptUndo', {
            
            })

    # MoveSelection
    App.Do( Environment, 'MoveSelection', {
            'Offset': (9,-8), 
            'ClearSource': App.Constants.Boolean.true, 
            'GeneralSettings': {
                'ExecutionMode': App.Constants.ExecutionMode.Default, 
                'AutoActionMode': App.Constants.AutoActionMode.Match
                }
            })

    # DefloatSelection
    App.Do( Environment, 'DefloatSelection', {
            'GeneralSettings': {
                'ExecutionMode': App.Constants.ExecutionMode.Default, 
                'AutoActionMode': App.Constants.AutoActionMode.Match
                }
            })

    # MoveSelection
    App.Do( Environment, 'MoveSelection', {
            'Offset': (-11,3), 
            'ClearSource': App.Constants.Boolean.true, 
            'GeneralSettings': {
                'ExecutionMode': App.Constants.ExecutionMode.Default, 
                'AutoActionMode': App.Constants.AutoActionMode.Match
                }
            })

    # SelectNone
    App.Do( Environment, 'SelectNone', {
            'GeneralSettings': {
                'ExecutionMode': App.Constants.ExecutionMode.Default, 
                'AutoActionMode': App.Constants.AutoActionMode.Match
                }
            })

Before spotting the cause I then tried a different method to produce the effect, simply by adding a white and black shadow. That's the more intuitive way I would do it manually. But again the recorded script failed.

I then saw that in both cases the script is not recording the important step of swapping black and white in Materials. The second script had a line containing 255, 255, 255 and changing that to 0, 0, 0 fixed it. But why did the script not capture the swap in either recording?

[LeviFiction]

Some commands just aren't recorded. Things like swapping foreground and background colors is just one of those. I believe it's because a majority of commands don't simply say "use foreground" or "use backgorund" it'll actually capture the foreground and background colors at that moment and put those specific colors into the script. So it's rare that when recording a script that swapping foreground and background colors will ever be meaningful.

It's still possible to script it, you just have to do so manually. Just add this line at the appropriate location in your steps.

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App.Do( Environment, 'SwapMaterials', {})

[terrypin]

Thanks, understood.

Referring back to my earlier more general question, do you know of any scripts for creating other interesting text effects?