Different platforms, different displayed effects ?

[Robert J. Earp]

Many moons ago I was a sorta scripthead with SC and had to move to 
ToolBook to keep the bills payed. I graciously accept all sympathy, 
thanks !!

Anyhow, I am now moving everything to Rev and am having a lot of issues, 
unfortunately more so than going from SC to TB.   Most of the problems 
is me having brain farts, but some of them are just weird. 

There's likely going to be a lot of obtuse questions I'll post, but to 
start with I don't seem to get close to the same effects and/or 
performance when going from a Mac to a PC or to other PC's.  An example 
is the various visual effects. 

Given this;

on mouseUp
  put the textColor of fld "Foo" into Ltemp
  set the textColor of fld "Foo" to white
  lock screen
  set the textColor of fld "Foo" to Ltemp
  unlock screen with visual effect dissolve
end mouseUp

On a Mac OS-X platform the fld shows as a dissolve, but there's a flash 
at the end
On a HP Pavilion zv500 running WinXP  it doesn't do much at all, maybe a 
slight flash.  More like a straight "show obj".
On a WinXP PC desktop it works OK, but grossly different in speed (of 
dissolve) to the Mac.

I certainly don't expect things to be identical or even close, but I can 
likely script around that if I know where the problems lie.  So, has 
anybody written notes or a paper on areas to watch when developing cross 
platform ?

More to the point, has anybody else moved from TB to Rev and would like 
to commiserate with me over some fine Vancouver beer ? :-P

Thanks, Bob...
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