ANN: "Seamless Tiles Generator 2" updated

[-= JB =-]

Hi Wilhelm,

That is a nice stack.  Thank you.  I do get a few error dialogs.  I  
even get one
when it first starts but I select ignore and the stack works.

Thanks again for posting it.

-=>JB<=-



On Oct 11, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Wilhelm Sanke, FB01 wrote:

>  Just uploaded a slightly updated version of the "Seamless Tiles  
> Generator 2" to
>
> <http://www.sanke.org/Software/SeamlessTiles2.zip>
>
> See the descriptions on page "Sample Stacks" on my website
> <http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia>.
>
> Among other things this stack features an improved resizable and  
> draggable
> selection graphic that lets you choose a segment of any size from  
> the imported
> source image  to create a seamless tile.
>
> The ink of the selection graphic needed to be adapted both to the  
> differences
> between Windows and MacOS and the stackfileversions 2.4 and 2.7.
>
> With engine versions < 2.7 we need "admin" for MacOS and "srcAnd"  
> for Windows.
> For engine versions  2.7 and higher "srccopy" is necessary for both  
> platforms to
> show a transparent graphic.
>
> Moreover, I have changed the stack extension from "*.mc" to  
> "*.rev", to enable
> users of Rev 3.0 gm 3 to see and load the stack.
>
> See the quote of my earlier post (to the Metacard- and Improve- 
> lists) concerning
>  this special problem:
>
>> Strange change of file associations with Rev 3-gm-3 engine
>>
>> Wilhelm Sanke
>> Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:59:50 -0700
>> Rev engine 3-gm-2 displays both *.rev and *.mc-files in the "open  
>> stack"
>> dialog as "Revolution stacks". Engine 3-gm-3 restricts the  
>> displayed stacks to
>> files with the "*.rev" extension; even when you choose "All files"  
>> the display
>> of mc-files is suppressed, but other files like dlls and txt files  
>> are shown.
>> It is even impossible to enforce the display of mc-files by typing  
>> "*.mc" into
>> the file name box of the open stack dialog. Putting the  
>> Revolution.exe engine
>> 3-gm-3 into the Metacard IDE shows the same restrictions: No mc- 
>> files are
>> displayed. However, when you rename "Revolution.exe" to "MC.exe",  
>> both
>> "Revolution stack"-files "rev" and "mc" are displayed in the "open  
>> stack"
>> dialog - like before in gm-2 with "Revolution.exe". This holds for  
>> both IDEs,
>> the Revolution and the Metacard IDE. The consequence for users  
>> that primarily
>> work with the Rev IDE - but wish to access Metacard files once in  
>> a while -
>> would be to rename their Rev engine to "MC.exe". This works fine  
>> within the Rev
>> IDE.
>
>
> -- 
> Wilhelm Sanke
> <www.sanke.org/MetaMedia>
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