Help with Label effect

General JUCE discussion
1

Hi.

I would like to surround a label with red glow (validation purposes).

Using the GlowEffect I was only able to have the red glow inside the label and the glow was affecting the text also (which isn’t something I want)…
What do I have to do in order to make make it glow outside its borders and to not affect the text?

Thanks.

2

Components can only draw inside their border, so you’d have to create a bigger ‘glow’ component that would float behind or above your button.

3

What about the text being affected by the GlowEffect?

I’m using setComponentEffect on the bigger ‘glow’ component…

I guess I need to make the bigger glow component and the label siblings and then use the effect only on the big component.