Transparency confusion

[Thomas J McGrath III]

scripted -  text as windows ie. windows that take on the shape of the 
text

could work, but a lot of setup work, but could work

On Dec 27, 2003, at 10:45 PM, Ken Norris wrote:

>> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:09:26 -0800
>> From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
>> Subject: Re: Transparency confusion
>
>> You could fake it by taking a screenshot of that portion of the 
>> screen with
>> the "import snapshot" command.
> ------------
> Problem is...if you open something that goes into that area, like the 
> bottom
> of a browser window, you'll still see the DT image portion if you keep 
> your
> scrolling in front where you can see it. I've tried something similar 
> and it
> just looks wierd. The only thing that would work with this solution is 
> to
> push all other windows above the area in question (and resize 
> them)..hard to
> do with other applications, eh?
>
> Everything Rev displays actually happens in a window, even 
> windowShapes. But
> displaying scrolling text as windowshapes won't work AFAIK.
>
> I also can think of many uses for floating animated overlays, so if 
> anyone
> can come up with something, please get our attention.
>
> Ken N.
>
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