Several Windows Questions...

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Jason,

Check out how many colors your monitor is displaying (display props)...
There's a lot of problems when switching to lower-bit displays...

I also experience a lot of problems with lock screens and screen flashes 
AFTER
compiling on the same OS (W2KSP3) regardless of screen depth. 

Last but not least, Windows ME is by far the worst OS ever made... 
Dont rely on anything it says or shows... Use a "standard" like W98 SE if 
you can still
find one but best is to concentrate on a later or the latest OS... 

Just my 2 cents...

On 06/11/2003 12:07:13 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>Hi there;
>
>New to Rev and trying to get the hang of things, especially related to
>cross-platform issues. I'm developing on Mac OS X 10.2 and then
>building my standalones for Mac OS X, Windows and Mac OS PPC. My stacks
>are very simple, as I am not skilled at this stuff by any means. Using
>it to build a vocabulary drill program.
>
>Here's the first issue:
>
>I have a stack that has a card for each of the vocabulary words used.
>When each card is displayed, there is an image that hides the answer to
>the vocabulary word displayed. The user guesses the answer and then
>clicks a button to reveal the answer and play an audio file of the word
>being spoken. The button script in use is:
>
>on mouseUp
>play "VocabData/VocabAudio/L1Vocab36.aif"
>hide image "AnswerBlock" with dissolve
>end mouseUp
>
>Simple, no? The trouble is, the dissolve (and others elsewhere in the
>stack) works great on the Mac during development and on the Mac
>standalones, but I'm having some troubles when testing under Windows.
>Using Virtual PC with Windows XP and Windows 98, the dissolve works
>normally (though slowly under emulation) yet on the PC laptop I have
>here, the dissolves don't appear at all- there's just a delay during
>which the dissolve would normally occur then the "AnswerBlock" image is
>hidden without a visual effect. This is under Windows ME on an older
>Pentium 200MHz. Is this lack of dissolves due to Windows ME? Due to the
>slow processor on the laptop? Inquiring minds are looking for an answer.
>
>Next Issue:
>
>When running my standalone under Windows (all three flavors mentioned
>above), there is no tab in the Taskbar for my running application. Does
>this have anything to do with setting the decorations to empty?
>
>Next issue:
>
>I have several sub-stacks in my standalone. Under Windows, each of the
>substacks appears as a separate task under the Task Manager, as if
>multiple programs are running. Is this normal behavior? Is there a way
>to make substacks not appear separately?
>
>Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
>-Jason
>
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