[ANN] Casey's Solitaire published on Android Market

[John Craig]

Hi, Thomas.  I've been writing PNGs directly from LiveCode - can you 
send an example of one of the misbehaving ones?  I'm curious if I can 
identify the rogue data and maybe strip it out.

John.

On 09/02/2012 14:57, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
> Jac,
>
> Congratulations, Looks great. I hope it does very well for you.
>
> As far as the artifacts, Were these PNGs under the fields? From Photoshop? If so there is a very weird instance where transparencies produce this kind of visual effect. I have been able to solve that problem on a Mac. The problem is there is something 'legacy' left over in the way photoshop (and some other apps as well) saves pngs that only shows up in certain applications and or when using certain techniques to display a png with transparency. A lot of people mistakenly have been blaming powerpoint/preview/etc. on the internet, but it is actually an issue with legacy code used to write out transparencies in pngs.
>
> If this is the case I can box up my workaround (it is a kludge however) and send it to you.
>
> -- Tom McGrath III
> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
> 3mcgrath at comcast.net
>
> On Feb 8, 2012, at 5:49 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> On 2/8/12 4:26 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote:
>>> Jacque,
>>>
>>> I can't find it in the Market. Is it my device/OS version?
>> Yeah, probably, and I'm sorry about that. :( I had to set the manifest to allow only Android 2.3 or higher. I had got it to work on 2.2 by using software rendering instead of OpenGL, but the engine started drawing crazy blue artifacts around all the transparent fields. They didn't coincide with any object shapes, it was random blocks of noise. I couldn't release it that way.
>>
>> If you're curious what it was doing, I put screen shots in the QCC:
>> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9881>. It's wild.
>>
>> So I'm hoping that gets fixed in the engine, and if it does I'll change the manifest to allow 2.2. It still won't be the fastest rendering but at least the screen will look right.
>>
>> I'll shoot you a private email if/when I can update the app, if you want, and to anyone else who just can't wait to clean up bird poop.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>
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