>"Sjoerd Op 't Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Alex Shaw wrote/ schreef:
> >
> >
> >> I've just encountered this problem on the MAC with a borderless stack with
> >> white background etc which works fine on PC. Black of course is fine but
> >> any other colour... hmmm ... ive looked round but can you just somehow set
> >> this colour? How do you hide or get rid of this border ?? any 2.4
> >> options/hacks welcome :)
> >
> > This can't be done from within MC itself. It's something Mac specific, and
> > you have to change it in your standalone using ResEdit (search the
> > Internet), but I don't know what exactly and in which resource...
> >
> > Anyone? Scott?
>
>The problem is that there is no borderless window support built into
>MacOS, so developers have to create their own (as a WDEF resource).
>You can't just add one to the resource fork, unless maybe you e.g.
>replace the palette WDEF (which would give you borderless windows
>but no palette windows), because the engine has to know about it.
>
>MetaCard 2.4 has such a WDEF, which means RR will get it in its
>next release.
>    Regards,
>      Scott

Yay !  No border in MAC MC 2.4B2 !

Luv your work guys.. but the visual effect bug is still present :(

I've decided to do a MAC/PC CDROM project with 2.4 (with a deadline of 
mid-july) which requires a lot of nice smooth transitions for hundreds of 
beautiful wildlife imagery. Beta software it may be but I'm very happy that 
QT effects are accessible directly from MC. Blendlevel is also very handy.

With access to the image buffers I'm sure it would be easy to roll your own 
routines to emulate all the QT effects but who has time for that?? :)

It's great not having to pre-render quicktime effects for the simple 
display of still images...

but a bug is a bug.. i'll try to explain in more detail what i'm trying to 
do, maybe some1 could suggest another way.

the main problem seems to be when i simulate a cross-fade by either:

1. Having 2 images grouped, both the same dimensions & stacked 1 directly 
on top of the other. The top one is initially hidden & slowly dissolved in 
with a show with visual effect command.

2. Having 1 image displayed. Locking the screen while putting a 2nd image 
into the 1st image container with a show with visual effect command before 
unlocking.

In both cases (mac-only, fine on pc) OCCASIONALLY while the 2nd image is 
coming on it flickers with askewed corruption. I'm using the crossfade for 
rollover images & a slideshow and it also occurs for other effects 
(although I havent tested all the effects).

I've got round cross-fading by designing a nice fading system using 
blendlevel but using some of the other effects would be nice for displaying 
text/image panels.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Alex


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