Bizarre problem of disappearing pictures on reducing stack size

[Phil Davis]

Hi Steve,

Two tips that will at least tell you more about those unviewable images:


1) In the Application Browser, select one of them, then click the 
"Inspector" button and look at the "Size and Position" panel of the 
Inspector. That will tell you if the image is within the rectangle of 
the stack, or if for some reason it is "offscreen". If offscreen, you can

   set the loc of image "arrows" to the loc of image "withoutArrows"

to bring it back onscreen.


2) Also in the same panel you can check the layer of the object. If the 
layer number is lower than that of the image it's supposed to cover, it 
won't be viewable even when visible. (The layers of both images should 
also be shown in the Application Browser).


Hopefully this will help bring those images back under control!

Phil Davis



Stgoldberg at aol.com wrote:
> I've created a stack containing several hundred cards, each with a jpeg of   
> a radiologic image.   In order to test students, each x-ray is unlabeled with 
> arrows.   In order to provide a clue to the student, I've prepared a duplicate 
> hidden picture on each card with the same picture, but with arrows pointing 
> to   key areas to look at.   The duplicate picture is titled "arrows" and is 
> set to be hidden, until the student clicks on a button titled "hint" which 
> contains the script '"show image "arrows"'.   In order to create the duplicate 
> picture, I copied and immediately pasted the original picture on the same site on 
> the card.   I then opened the image editor and put in the arrows and updated 
> the picture.
> 
> I recently phrased the question to the forum as to whether it was possible to 
> minimize the stack size, since so many of the original pictures were resized 
> right on the card. Apparently, just resizing the images and   locking the size 
> and position on the card does not reduce the size of the stack. So, Phil 
> Davis suggested an excellent brief way to do this through the following script:
> 
> on mouseUp
>     -- first, prevent the image from expanding when reset
>     set the lockLoc of img "myImage" to true
> 
>     -- reset the image's data
>     put the imageData of img "myImage" into tData
>     set the imageData of img "myImage" to tData
> end mouseUp
> 
> In order to try this on the entire stack, I modified the script a bit 
> (fortunately I made a backup stack first):
> 
> repeat with x = 1 to the number of cards
> go to card x
> repeat with y = 1 to the number of images
> if there is an image y then 
> put the imageData of img y into tData
> set the imageData of img y to tData
> end if
> end repeat
> end repeat
> 
> This indeed did significantly reduce the stack size.   However, all of the 
> "arrows" pictures in the stack disappeared. They would no longer appear with the 
> command   'show image "arrows"' or on turning on "Show Invisible Objects" 
> from the view menu.   The "arrows" pictures could not be found, but strangely 
> they still were listed in the Application Browser.   Does anyone have any 
> suggestion as to how to account for this?   The only thing I can think of is that the 
> original pictures can be found in the Finder.   The duplicated pictures, as 
> always, cannot.   Perhaps this has something to do with it.   Thanks very much.
> Steve Goldberg