At 8:55 PM -0500 8/20/01, Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote:
>1) I have imported multiple photo images into one card then resized them on the
>card (by resetting the size of the image in its properties box. Then I saved the
>stack, closed it anr removed it from memory. Much to my dismay, when I reopened the
>stack, all the imagese were on the card but in their original (grotesqely large)
>size. Locking the object's location fixed the problem--apparently locking the
>object's location also locks its size and this survives a save, close/remove from
>memory and then reopen.
Set the lockLoc of the images. If the images are large, consider importing them by
reference. Revolution works differently than HyperCard, in that it loads everything
into memory when a stack is opened, in order to boost performance. This makes it
easier (on the Mac especially) to run out of memory. In many cases loading images by
reference is fine, and it means the images are only loaded into memory when they are
needed.
>Has anyone else made similar observations? What is the limit for filename length? I
>certainly can continue to make more folders on my Mac and stuff more files into these
>folders, so it doesn't SEEM to be an absolute limit in the OS. But it certainly DOES
>seem to be an issue which appears only when files are deeply nested.
In recent version of the Mac OS there isn't a limit to the overall path length. It was
about 250 characters at one point, but it's much larger now. Filenames can only be
about 30 characters.
regards,
geoff
