windowShape in Tiger (again)

[Lars Brehmer]

Hi Gordy!

>> Has anyone installed Tiger and looked at a revStack or standalone
>> that uses a windowShape other than rectangular?
>>
>>  one of my main Rev projects has three stacks with a shape that is
>> basically rectangular with a small, round protrusion on the bottom
>> (and slightly rounded corners).  Both in rev and in the standalone,
>> there is a strange outline parallel to the bottom of the window
>> about 50 pixels lower.  It's a little hard to describe, so if
>> anyone out there is inclined to take a quick  a look at this
>> strangeness, let me know and I will send you screen shots.

> I just tried the windowLab stack.  This is the one that you can run
> from RevNet where you can draw an arbitrary shape and then create a
> window from that shape.

Gave this a try and it worked for a round test stack in Tiger both as a 
revStack and as a standalone.  I am not sure what format the mask that 
is created in windowLab is, so I took my stack, whose shape is a png 
and created the same shape as a black gif and gave it a try, but with 
the same result on my machine running Tiger - that wierd additional 
shape.  I am sending you two screenshots offline so you can see what I 
am talking about.

I also tried to drop my black gif onto the active area of windowLab, 
but it doesn't generate a stack when I do that.
>
> It seemed to work just fine and I wasn't able to duplicate the effect
> that you mentioned.

Yes, this definitely works in Tiger, but I can't recreate my shape in 
windowLab ;-(
>
>
> If you have a specific stack you would like for me to try I would be
> happy to do that.

I am just wondering what Tiger does differently, because my windowShape 
has always been perfect in Panther, MacOS and Windows XP!

Cheers,

Lars