Odd-shaped buttons . . .

[Richmond Mathewson]

One criticism that has been levelled against Runtime Revolution
is that it seems to provide no way of making non-rectangular buttons.

Of course one can make PGN and GIF images with transparent areas;
but this doesn't really help if one wants to make (for instance) an
interactive piece with adjacent, odd-shaped objects.

Many years ago my boys had a Dorling-Kindersly CD with a map
of the world, and, infantile chap that I am, I spent hours
clicking extremely near to the boundaries of the respective
borders of countries on the map: and, guess what, they were
country-shaped buttons. That was in 1996 (!!!!!!), and the CD 
had been built with MacroMedia Authorware.

Now, 12 years later, it might not be a bad idea if we could catch
up with MacroMedia (well, at least in this respect) and find a way to
produce odd-shaped buttons . . .

Thoughts, Solutions (um?), Ideas . . .

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.

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