>On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 Shari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Going crazy! Wish to implement a visual effect on opening a stack >> with the GO command either via: > >Sorry, there's no way to do that. I can't even think of any way this >could even theoretically work because MetaCard doesn't draw the window >title bar or borders, so the *OS* would have to do the visual effect, >and no OS I know of supports anything like this. You might ask the OS >X developers for this, though. They're *very* fond of doing >unconventional stuff like that ;-)
To play devil's advocate, here's the link to let Apple know you'd like this 8-) http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/ (I can imagine Jobs getting wind of this, having some teary-eyed flashback of HyperCard, and then deciding on a whim to change the whole desktop metaphor from "Aqua" to "Rolodex cards," with all window updates done thru visual effects... I digress tho ;-) ) Like Scott said, though, that would be most impossible. However, one thing I noticed my programming cousin did in VisualBasic for Windows was: 1) he gets the contents of the entire screen 2) makes a new window that contains an image of the entire screen (usually the windows desktop) 3) with VisualBasic he can draw images right into an off-screen GWorld, so he was able to create the illusion of a weird, very irregular window on the desktop by simply drawing an alpha-masked image on top of this fake desktop image You probably could fake it somehow with MetaCard, tho... Try taking an image of the first card of the going-to stack, do a visual effect to show that image in your current stack, then just open the going-to stack at the exact same location as the current stack. Faking stuff sucks, but when it makes the impossible possible... ;-) -- Karl Becker, KB Productions - http://www.karlbecker.com Featuring:New Tricks, Tiger's Eye Pub, and The Fishin' Hole _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
