Type 2 error, .gif and image flicker problem solved

[Shari]

Thanks to Scott Raney for all his help!

The problem I had was flickering .gif images, that resulted in a 
freeze requiring a force-quit.  Or sometimes just quitting on me with 
a Type 2 error (Mac PPC).

It was not a memory problem, or an extension problem, or a Metacard 
version problem.  It wasn't even that my stack uses almost 2000 image 
objects (Scott didn't know it was that big until now :-)  The stack 
is for my use only, what will get distributed is MUCH smaller.

The solution turned out to be that MetacardPPC did not like the .gif 
images.  I used .gif images created with PhotoDeluxe and with 
GraphicConvertor, and the result was the same.  Errors.

But when I used GraphicConvertor to turn the .gif into a .png, 
MetacardPPC was happy and the problems went away.

It did not like .pngs created with PhotoDeluxe, however.  And 
MetacardOSX was perfectly happy with .gifs or .pngs or whatever I fed 
it.

Bottom line...

MetacardPPC is a lot happier if you feed it .png images created with 
GraphicConvertor, instead of .gif images.

I never found a good use for that program until now... and since it 
will let me batch-convert ALL THOSE MILLIONS  of .gif images with one 
click... I suspect I might actually start liking that program!

(Okay, millions is stretching it a bit... but when you have to 
convert them one by one, as I've done at least twice already... 
hundreds can feel like millions... :-)

Why so many?  It's an adventure game!  All those little tile graphics...

Shari C
Gypsy King Software





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