Transparency confusion

[Ops]

Firstly [OT], this is the absolute best mailing-list/user group I have ever
encountered, thanks to competent, responsive, and kind individuals that
participate.

Secondly, thank you for all the fine suggestions, I shall experiment...DID I
HEAR of a new feature coming out (or is it already here?) of "transparent
windows", and would this apply to my "scrolling text" application? THANKS
AGAIN ALL!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Norris" <pixelbird at interisland.net>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 4:23 AM
Subject: Re: Transparency confusion


> on 12/28/03 1:48 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com at
> use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:47:16 -0800
> > From: Ken Norris <pixelbird at interisland.net>
> > Subject: Re: Transparency confusion
> >
> >> Why is this?  Is it the time required to change windowShapes?  Is it
> >> the work required to get the image to make the windowShapes?
> > -----------
> > Well, yeah...all of the above. I think you'd have to make each character
a
> > separate graphical element in a windowShape.
> ------------
> This turned out not to be quite true, I think. You should be able to make
a
> *line* of text into a bit-mapped GIF image, turn it into a windowShape,
and
> scroll it by changing its loc.
>
> I wasn't able to put this together in Rev because I cannot create 1-bit
> transparent bg GIFs or PNGs right now, but I *did* build one in SuperCard
as
> a customPalette.
>
> I made a bit-mapped image and knocked out the centers of letters as needed
> (a's, o's, e's, p's, d's, etc.). I started the window off screen-right and
> updated it's loc in an idle handler, but in Rev you might be able to send
in
> time.
>
> However, as I expected, it flickers because of the constant redraws of the
> window as moves.
>
> Just an idea...
>
> Ken N.
>
> _______________________________________________
> use-revolution mailing list
> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>