Observations Re: Images

[Terry Judd]

>At 7:50 AM -0700 5/22/2002, Rob Cozens wrote:
>>* There is no way of sharing a image among several stacks except by
>>keeping the image as an individual file.  If, for example, one starts
>>using an image library stack and references an image in the library,
>>a copy of the image is installed in the referencing stack.
>
>You can create a blank button and set its icon to the image; in this way
>the image can reside in any stack that's loaded into memory. (Whether this
>is practical depends on whether you just want to display the image, or
>whether you need to fiddle with such as the imageData or mask as well.)
>
>>* One should never put an image in a group that appears on more than
>>one card...rather one should place a button referencing the image by
>>icon #.  If this is not done, a new copy of the image appears in the
>>stack's image library every time a card containing the group is
>>created.
>
>Um? Not sure what you are referring to here as "the stack's image library".
>Can you give more details? (I've done just this - an image in a group that
>appears on more than one card - without problems.)

I can confirm Rob's observation. In the past I made the mistake of 
using (grouped) images as navigation controls and ended up with 
gazillions of copies of the same images in the image library - ugly 
to say the least.

Terry...

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