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

[J. Landman Gay]

Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
<snip>
> For the above points there are no differences between Rev and MC, but
> 
> - The format of the "text of image" property is different in Rev and MC 
> - tested both in stacks and standalones.

Rev sets the default paintCompression to PNG and MC sets it to RLE. I 
suspect this is done in the RevCommon library, but I haven't actually 
looked. To test equivalencies, it would be good if you set the the 
paintCompression to PNG in MC too.

> 
> Resetting an image to its previously stored text in MC and the MC IDE 
> results in a blank image (unless the text was stored using Rev and the 
> stack after that opened in MC).
> 
> This means that you cannot use the text property to store and retrieve 
> images in MC.

Even though you are using the same engine, are you saving the stacks 
with the same stackFileFormat?

> 
> The different format of the text of image property in Rev can be seen 
> when you put the retrieved text into a field:
> 
> The first line of the image text in Rev always contains "‰PNG", which is 
> missing in MC.--
> 
> The big question - similar to the one about imagedata, but this time to 
> the disadvantage of MC - is (as both IDEs and standalones use the same 
> engine) what is being added to the Rev standalone that allows proper 
> handling of the "text of an image"?

As far as I know (which may not be enough) it's just the difference in 
the paintcompression property.

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