Creating windowShapes in Rev

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Thu Jan 1 17:20:03 EST 2004


On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 02:30 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

>>> 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?

I didn't say this right.  I mean, I had some vague list memory of a 
problem with some formats not working and image formats had to be just 
right.  I have had no problem with image formats with windowShapes.

Dar Scott



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