mainStack scripts, now Windows??

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Wed Aug 31 08:12:28 EDT 2005


>Hi all!
>
>I thank Richard, Eric and Robert for their concise expalnations and 
>help.   Now that I have followed that advice (a different stack with 
>no script is now the mainStack) I'm happy as a clam.  One more thing 
>though;
>
>One of the reasons I made the major changes to my project was to try 
>to make the Windows version run better.  I work on a Mac (OSX.4.2) 
>and was a little shocked to see the newest Windows standalone.  I 
>hadn't done one for many months after I originally convinced myself 
>it would work in Windows.  Now that the program has grown and 
>morphed into something far better and is nearing completion, I made 
>another Windows build.  I always knew I would need to buy Rev for 
>Windows, at least to get the fonts looking their "best," but I was a 
>little disappointed when I launched it.  On my Mac it is flawless, 
>but on windows, so many things flicker and stacks in the backgound 
>flash black when buttons are clicked in other stacks.  And my 
>mainStack flickers black when I navigate in it.  Now, the background 
>of the stack is black, and  the mask that provides the windowShape 
>is black, so a black flash makes sense, but why does it flash at 
>all? I mean, sometines two side by side buttons, whose icons were 
>made in Photoshop and other than their labels are indentical have 
>tow different color shades!!!  All of this before AND after the 
>mainStack script thing.

Do you have "always buffer" on in your stacks?

Robert



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