Firstly [OT], this is the absolute best mailing-list/user group I have ever encountered, thanks to competent, responsive, and kind individuals that participate.
Secondly, thank you for all the fine suggestions, I shall experiment...DID I HEAR of a new feature coming out (or is it already here?) of "transparent windows", and would this apply to my "scrolling text" application? THANKS AGAIN ALL!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Norris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 4:23 AM Subject: Re: Transparency confusion > on 12/28/03 1:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:47:16 -0800 > > From: Ken Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Transparency confusion > > > >> Why is this? Is it the time required to change windowShapes? Is it > >> the work required to get the image to make the windowShapes? > > ----------- > > Well, yeah...all of the above. I think you'd have to make each character a > > separate graphical element in a windowShape. > ------------ > This turned out not to be quite true, I think. You should be able to make a > *line* of text into a bit-mapped GIF image, turn it into a windowShape, and > scroll it by changing its loc. > > I wasn't able to put this together in Rev because I cannot create 1-bit > transparent bg GIFs or PNGs right now, but I *did* build one in SuperCard as > a customPalette. > > I made a bit-mapped image and knocked out the centers of letters as needed > (a's, o's, e's, p's, d's, etc.). I started the window off screen-right and > updated it's loc in an idle handler, but in Rev you might be able to send in > time. > > However, as I expected, it flickers because of the constant redraws of the > window as moves. > > Just an idea... > > Ken N. > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
