More on Clocks...

[J. Landman Gay]

Scott Rossi wrote:
> Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
> 
>>>True, there is no image rotation occurring, but it might contain a small
>>>degree of "sexiness"...
>>
>>Very nice! So, if you add a windowshape, we'd have a widget, right? ;)
> 
> 
> Well, I've always thought about doing this, but the only way to pull it off
> without tons of masks is to make a multi-window stack.
> 
> OK, twist my arm, I did it -- in your message box:
> 
>   go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/download/ballclock4.rev"

Oooohhhh.....wow. Beautiful.

> For better visibility, run the stack on a medium to dark value desktop (the
> stack won't be very visible against a white background).
> 
> OK then... a multi-window widget (kind of).  You can drag the base and it
> will reposition all its parts.  Perhaps this accounts for "sexy".

I'd say. :)

> 
> (One limitation I ran into was making the balls visible when the clock stack
> is suspended.  The hidePalettes property is apparently still broken [?], and
> I couldn't get suspend and resume to reliably change the window modes to
> topLevel and back to palette, but hey, what do you want for an hour's
> effort?...)

I haven't looked at how you are doing this yet, but apparently you are 
using separate stacks for each ball. Images alone won't work?

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