Creating windowShapes in Rev

[Dar Scott]

On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 02:13 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

>> I have heard of people having trouble with formats that do not work
>> with a windowShape, but I have not seen any problem.  Maybe I'm 
>> naively
>> using the right formats.
>
> PNG and GIF are the formats that allow you to create custom window 
> shapes
> since these can contain the mask information needed for the window.  
> Note
> that an 8 bit mask in a 24 bit PNG will get converted down to 1 bit 
> usually
> providing less than desirable results.

So there isn't really a problem?  What was all the clambering about 
when this was first introduced?

Dar Scott