Transparency confusion

[Dar Scott]

On Saturday, December 27, 2003, at 08:45 PM, Ken Norris wrote:

> Everything Rev displays actually happens in a window, even 
> windowShapes. But
> displaying scrolling text as windowshapes won't work AFAIK.

Why is this?  Is it the time required to change windowShapes?  Is it 
the work required to get the image to make the windowShapes?  I think 
on Windows people are used to the ragged character shapes.

Dar Scott