Another MC-Rev anomaly: "text of image" property

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Nov 1 13:11:35 CST 2006


J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>> It is the default compression in the engine, and if no other 
>>> compression is set, you will get RLE by default. I just did a search 
>>> and found that Rev does set the paintcompression to PNG in the 
>>> revGeneral library.
>>
>> How did this affect standalones?
>
> It's the only library that Rev always adds to standalones. As Kevin 
> explained, it contains all the "rev-" language additions, so is required 
> for most Rev users. And to keep standalones in parity with the IDE, it 
> sets the paintcompression as well.
> 
> (And I can never remember if it is called "revCommon" or "revGeneral" 
> but its the one that handles all the basic rev language extensions.)

It's been a while since I dove into revCommon or revGeneral, but IIRC 
they only contained handlers that had to be called explicitedly (the 
"rev"-prefixed ones).

What system messages are trapped in those scripts?

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