On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Kevin Miller wrote:
> On Tuesady, Nov 23 1999, Michael Walas wrote:
> > I've
> > changed the cursor ID to < 100, put the cursor in the cursor substack of
> > tools, and even made my own substack with ithe mported cursor. I know
> > this has to be very simple yet it's taking way to much time to do such a
> > simple job. Anyone want to help a frustrated user?
>
> You need to paint on the image in MetaCard. The way to know if you have
> been succesful is to check the colors properties: you should have only three
> lines in it, one for black, white, and the transparent color.
Correction: there should only be two colors after painting. If you
use a GIF for a cursor, there should be 3 colors (as specified
above). But most paint packages dump a full colormap into the image
header even if only 2 (or 3) colors are used, so painting is usually
the best way to generate cursors.
> The right
> mouse button (control click on the Mac) erases the background color in
> objects when painting with the bucket - doing that on the transparent area
> should be enough.
Also note that painting is only supported on UNIX systems in the
current 2.2.5 release. You can paint on Windows and MacOS in the 2.3
beta, though.
Regards,
Scott
> Kevin
>
> Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.xworlds.com/>
> Cross Worlds Computing, MetaCard Distributors, Custom Development.
> Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707.
>
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