On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Peter Reid wrote:
> >Is it possible that the copied images have different IDs than the
> >originals? If so, the button icon IDs may be set to the IDs of the
> >originals, so they still wouldn't be displayed as icons outside the dev
> >environment.
> >
> >Food for thought.
> >
> >Phil
>
> Phil,
>
> Thanks for the thought. What's puzzling is that when I test my stack
> I'm careful to do it through a player, i.e. with a copy the MetaCard
> program and mctools.mc only, no other supporting files. I then send
> the same files together with my stack to my users and it doesn't work
> for them!?
One possibility is that it's finding mctools.mc in one case but not
the other, possibly because of where the file is installed. Better
test it on your own system with all copies of mctools.mc renamed to
something else.
> It has a certain familiar ring to previous problems I've had with
> both an earlier version of Visual Basic (v3) and various versions of
> HyperStudio. These turned out to be related to the large variety and
> variability of Windows display drivers. The solution that has worked
> in the case of HyperStudio was to install DirectX (the free MS games
> & multimedia support for Windows). This seems to make the display
> system better behaved (more standard). I've suggested this same
> course of action to my MetaCard stack users but haven't had a
> response from them yet as whether it solved the problem.
Driver problems are not uncommon on Windows, but seldom result in the
total failure to display an image. Wrong colors, clipped images, or
crashes that point to "somefile.DRV" are more common. Installing
DirectX isn't likely to have any effect unless that also upgrades the
driver version. A better thing to try is to set the hardware
acceleration to its lowest level in the Display and/or System control
panel.
Regards,
Scott
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>
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