Hi there;
New to Rev and trying to get the hang of things, especially related to cross-platform issues.
Welcome to the club :-)
I'm developing on Mac OS X 10.2 and then building my standalones for Mac OS X, Windows and
Mac OS PPC. My stacks are very simple, as I am not skilled at this stuff by any means.
Using it to build a vocabulary drill program.
Here's the first issue:
I have a stack that has a card for each of the vocabulary words used. When each card is displayed,
there is an image that hides the answer to the vocabulary word displayed. The user guesses the
answer and then clicks a button to reveal the answer and play an audio file of the word being spoken.
The button script in use is:
on mouseUp play "VocabData/VocabAudio/L1Vocab36.aif" hide image "AnswerBlock" with dissolve end mouseUp
Simple, no? The trouble is, the dissolve (and others elsewhere in the stack) works great on the Mac during
development and on the Mac standalones, but I'm having some troubles when testing under Windows.
Using Virtual PC with Windows XP and Windows 98, the dissolve works normally (though slowly under
emulation) yet on the PC laptop I have here, the dissolves don't appear at all- there's just a delay during
which the dissolve would normally occur then the "AnswerBlock" image is hidden without a visual effect.
This is under Windows ME on an older Pentium 200MHz. Is this lack of dissolves due to Windows ME?
Due to the slow processor on the laptop? Inquiring minds are looking for an answer.
This could be a QuickTime related issue...
If you do not specify otherwise, RR will use QT for transitions.
But, especially on older and slower PCs, it takes a little (or more ;-) time to LOAD QT.
And QT is very memory/processor consuming!
You can "switch off" the usage of QT, then the RR built-in effects are used.
In your case the built-in dissolve is a little bit cheesy ;-) but it works...
Put this in the stack script and check it again:
on preopenstack
set the dontuseqteffects to true
### do your stuff...
end ...This way RR will not use QT for the transitions...
Hope that helps...
There is a trick concerning this phenomenon on:
http://www.sonsothunder.com/
-> Developer Resources -> Revolution
Scroll down to "QuickTime"
Next Issue:
When running my standalone under Windows (all three flavors mentioned above), there is no
tab in the Taskbar for my running application. Does this have anything to do with setting the decorations to empty?
I am not sure, but i think so...
This is also the case when a stack is a "palette"...
Next issue:
I have several sub-stacks in my standalone. Under Windows, each of the substacks appears as a separate
task under the Task Manager, as if multiple programs are running. Is this normal behavior?
Yes...
Is there a way to make substacks not appear separately?
Sorry, no idea.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
You're welcome :-)
-Jason
Regards
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de
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