Leopard throb & images in a standalone
Scott Morrow
scott at elementarysoftware.com
Thu Jan 31 02:07:03 EST 2008
> Any way around this? I really like my app windows to have slightly
> rounded corners, but I also like some things to slide in and out
> like sheets. Ides anyone?
Hello Lars,
If you are doing something like showing and hiding groups with a wipe
effect providing the "sheet-like" look you might be able to achieve an
even cleaner look without the visual effect by actually sliding the
groups on or off the edge of the card. I use this trick regularly and
have been quite pleased with the results.
See: "move" and "moveSpeed"
-Scott Morrow
Elementary Software
(Now with 20% less chalk dust !)
web http://elementarysoftware.com/
email scott at elementarysoftware.com
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On Jan 30, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Lars Brehmer wrote:
> First of all, many thanks to Sarah, Jaqueline and Jim for the
> concise and very easy to understand suggestions for my recent
> question about using a stack with many cards vs. listfield/custom
> properties. As simple as their suggestions were, they had tiny bits
> that are not clear in the documentation, at least not for a non-
> coder like me. The results are terrific, anywhere from a script
> taking 60 vs 1600 milliseconds down to 18 vs 34! A terrific speed
> improvement, thanks again! One strange thing though - Originally my
> data was in the many card stack stored as custom properties, now all
> of that is a single, very large custom property, so when I deleted
> the many card stack and made a new standalone, I expected the file
> size to be about the same if not slightly smaller, but instead it
> has grown by a couple of megs (about 30%!). The new single custom
> property is just the sum of all the old custom properties, and the
> only other changes are in a bunch of scripts, which for the most
> part got shorter. Where did the extra size come from?
>
> Next question - how, if at all possible, can I make images in a
> standalone selectable and copy and pastable? In the IDE, obviously,
> yes, but clicking on an image in my standalone does not select it. I
> am starting to think it is not meant to be, but that would seem odd
> to me.
>
> Last question - some of you may recall my Leopard "throb" question
> from a week ago - where the shadow around the active window "throbs"
> in Leopard when a handler with a visual effect is executed. Now I
> know what causes it, but I don't know how to fix it, if that is even
> possible. It happens with visual effect wipe on a window that has a
> window shape, but not on a rectangular window. Any way around this?
> I really like my app windows to have slightly rounded corners, but I
> also like some things to slide in and out like sheets. Ides anyone?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lars
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