Hi Scott,
> I requested this feature when Revolution was in beta testing. Kevin added itIf this does not produce an effect as good as what I see when I type "flash" in the message box while viewing a kludgy AddColor HyperCard image, it's not what I (& Ted?) want. If that effect cannot be produced by the MetaCard engine, that's too bad.
to the list, but I don't know where it stands at this point.Hey, you want pixel inversion, just draw a white object (black on the Mac, I think) with its ink set to srcXor on top of your object. Once you see what that looks like, though, you'll see why I think you don't really want what you're asking for...
Inverting an image (remember we're talking simple icons here, not fine art) on arming or hiliting is a simple, easy way to make the interface more responsive to the user without having to create & manage addition icon images.
I understand the reasoning behind your general admonition, but I think the technique makes eminent sense in the circumstances under discussion:PS: and about that plan of using a GIF as an image library. It's bad idea because the frames are all decompressed ahead of time, chewing up large amounts of RAM for no good reason unless you're actually going to use it for animation where performance is more important than memory requirements.
* 314 images (I would only need 157 IF the MC engine could invert them)
* Average image size: 4K
* Images are scripted, grouped, & distributed as a set: if one is missing, the group can't function properly
* Images are always displayed singly
* All images are displayed at the same location
* It only uses one of the 100 icon ids you assigned me :{`)
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