Cursor questions

[Stgoldberg at aol.com]

Here are the directions for producing   cursors for Revolution that won't 
come out white:
1.   Open Photoshop. Name the image, Mode being RGB color, Background 
Transparent, and width and height 16 pixels.
2.   Change Image/Mode to Indexed Color, using the defaults for indexed 
color (Palette: Exact; Forced: Web; Transparency checked; Matte: none)
3. With image maximally magnified, used the pencil tool to insert black or 
white pixels.   Enclosed areas can be filled with white or black if desired 
and pixels can be erased if desired.
4.   Save as PNG.   
5.   Bring the PNG image into Revolution and note it's ID number (it may be 
1003 for instance).
6.   In the script to call the cursor write:
on mouseUp
set lockcursor to true
set the cursor to 1003 -- if that's the ID number
end mouseUp

All cursors should show up fine on both Mac and Windows. (I used Mac OS X 
with Revolution 2.7 in development)

It is interesting that sometimes there can be two identical pictures in 
Photoshop, one of which will show up cursors correctly and the other will show 
up only a white square or a black filled image, even though all the 
parameters in Photoshop seem to be the same!!   I don't know why this should be the 
case but it implies that there is something different about the two images 
even if not apparent.   This can be easily corrected either by creating a new 
Photoshop 16x16 document, carefully duplicating the pixels of the defective 
image, or more simply, just pasting the defective image into the new 
Photoshop document.   The cursors should then appear fine.

If you would like a group of many new cursors produced this way, let me 
know and I'll be glad to send them.
Stephen Goldberg
stgoldberg at aol.com

In a message dated 3/19/10 12:05:36 PM, 
use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com writes:


> From: Jeffrey Massung <massung at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Cursor questions
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> After taking this to the next level and using my own image as a cursor... 
> my cursor (a 16x16 imported PNG image) is turning into 100% white when I 
> set the cursor to it. The shape is correct, but just all the colors are 
> white. I can't find anything in the documentation about this.
> 
> Any hints as to what I'm doing wrong?
> 
>