Thanks for your comments.

This seems the ideal way to do it allowing you to store your images in a 
central repository.

All the best

Terry


> On 19 Jul 2015, at 22:53, Scott Rossi <sc...@tactilemedia.com> wrote:
> 
> You can reference an image in a substack for example, and in addition to 
> setting the windowShape of the stack to the ID of the image, set the 
> backPattern of the card of your mainstack to the same image ID.  You don’t 
> need to worry about aligning/positioning images, and you will likely get 
> better blending at the edges of the window. 
> 
> If you have any variable translucency in your source image, you’ll need to 
> play with the backColor of the stack as this can “show through” the 
> translucency of the card.
> 
> 



> On 20 Jul 2015, at 03:26, Todd Fabacher <tfabac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I find the bast way to set and show an image in a windowShape is use
> backgroundPattern.
> This way you do not need to worry about the image moving or not filling the
> screen. You can set it in the IDE or in code
> 
> set the backgroundPattern of *object* to {your* imageID*}

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