Windows Misery

[Graham Samuel]

For those that remember, I've been trying to find out what makes an app of 
mine work in Windows XP and Mac but not Windows 95,98 or ME. Well, I seem 
to have found it in rather general terms (after my attempts to pin the 
problem down to a single line of scripting failed) but I am none the wiser.

I have a card (the main display screen of the program) with 104 controls on 
it, of which 18 are small animated GIFs (embedded, not referenced). As 
files, the smallest of these is 19Kb and the largest 65Kb. The max number 
of frames is 30 - so they are tiny. Nevertheless if these GIFs are deleted, 
everything works normally - except of course I don't get my animations any 
more.

If you were following this story, the GIFs turned up on this particular 
card because they caused some other problem when on a different card to the 
main one, where they were displayed via transparent buttons... anyway, I 
don't know what all this is about and worse, I don't know how to get what I 
want (the animated buttons without the glitches I experienced before).

I still think I need the RunRev team to tell me something about the Windows 
engine, but of course I would be more than grateful for suggestions from 
the list.

TIA

Graham


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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France