Recently, "Richard Gaskin" wrote: > With RevNet already in public use for more than a year and a half, the > idea of net-delivered mini-apps is old hat to us Rev developers. So the > only remaining element is eye-candy: how to use special effects to show > and hide these mini-app windows.
Two answers below... > Since Rev has a built-in "import snapshot" command to grab portions of > the screen, the goal would be to find a way to grab an image of the > region of the screen beneath the mini-app, bring it into a borderless > stack which also has a capture of the mini-app itself, then use QT > transition effects to dissolve/squash/zoom it away. > > Since the "import snapshot" command grabs from the screen buffer, it > doesn't have the smarts to be able to grab a composite without the > topmost window layer. One can get it by hiding the window for a brief > moment to grab it, but the flash is disturbing and doesn't satisfy the > goal of creating a seamlessly smooth transition effect. > > In short, if someone cares to write an external that hooks into Quartz > to grab a composite of all but the topmost window layer the rest should > be a snap. But I'm not sure of the compositing engines on other > platforms are sophisticated enough to write such a thing for other OSes, > so it would, like Dashboard itself, be limited to OS X only. Short term answer: to display <alternate name for "widgets" here> nicely, one can use a combination of Trevor Devore's Window external and a custom window shape to show/hide stacks. Looks very slick and completely controllable. Long term answer: what Rev is lacking at this point is 8 bit window masks. This allows you to define round/angled window edges that blend seamlessly with whatever is behind them (the desktop). FWIW, I'll be showing a simple demo of the short term answer at the Masters Summit... Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Development & Design ----- E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
