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*} _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode