Metal .gif available [was Rev 2.5 Redraw Problems]

[MisterX]

Cool idea to overlap the shadow! 
Sorry to hear about the crash...

Got one crash story incoming for you! ;)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Frank Leahy
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 09:45
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Metal .gif available [was Rev 2.5 Redraw Problems]
> 
> Having read about the various problems with metal windows in 2.2 and
> 2.5 I decided to see if I couldn't fake it with a metal 
> backgroundPattern.  I tweaked a pattern I found on the web, 
> and it looks pretty good, with no obvious lines between the 
> tiles.  If anyone wants to use it let me know and I'll post 
> it.  Using it is as easy as typing "set the backgroundPattern 
> of this stack to theId" (where theId is the id of the pattern 
> after you've imported it into your stack).
> 
> -- Frank
> 
> p.s. It isn't perfect, because there really needs to be a 
> semi-transparent image that gets stretched over the top of 
> the gif (providing a bit of shadowing), but I found that 
> stretching the png image caused RunRev to crash my machine 
> (that's right, it actually crashed OSX!) so I gave up having 
> it look perfect...but it's pretty close as is, so I'm happy.
> 
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> On Nov 18, 2004, at 6:15 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
> > Subject: Rev 2.5 Redraw Problems
> > To: Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> > Message-ID: <771C78C3-38E3-11D9-B6C1-000D9350C9C2 at videotron.ca>
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> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm curious to know whether the redraw problems in 2.5 have been 
> > resolved in some sort of update.  In my version, working in 
> OS X, all 
> > controls disappear (it's scary) from metal-look windows 
> when I switch 
> > from one of the pointer tools in the Object Inspector to the stack 
> > itself.  This happens quite often.  The controls reappear 
> with random 
> > clicking or resizing the stack window using the resize grip.
> >
> > 	Greg
> >
> 
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