Implementing the Mac "Quick Look" type of window

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Mon Apr 12 16:17:55 EDT 2010


Fill an enhancement request on the QA Site and I will vote for it!

:D

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Richmond Mathewson <
richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 12/04/2010 22:17, Andre Garzia wrote:
>
>> Richmond,
>>
>> You can't do that with Rev... In Rev all elements inherit the stacks own
>> blendlevel :-(
>>
>
> Blast!
>
>
>  If you are not moving your stack, you can take a screenshot of the screen,
>> crop it, set it as background of the stack with a clever image with a
>> blend,
>> then it will look like the effect you're trying to achieve but if the
>> window
>> moves, the background will not move with it...
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Richmond Mathewson<
>> richmondmathewson at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>    On 12/04/2010 20:30, stephen barncard wrote:
>>>
>>>  <snip>
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, a facsimile of the Quick Look window shouldn't be that hard to
>>>> do
>>>> with 4.0's graphic effects.
>>>>
>>>>  >Wow; Cowabunga!
>>>>
>>> http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/STUFF/FREAKY.rev.zip
>>>
>>>  well, it took this "genius" about 3 minutes (and that is because he's
>>>>
>>> slow!).
>>>
>>> I have just uploaded a new version of this which shows up a slight
>>> problem:
>>> while it is a breeze to set the blend of a stack to, say, 50%; there is
>>> no
>>> way
>>> that I can find to stop objects in the stack from inheriting that blend
>>> value.
>>>
>>> My stack contains an image "DEVO" which I would like to have a blend
>>> value
>>> of 0; and it does; but, because it inherits the blend value of the stack
>>> that
>>> is overridden and the image is still partly transparent.
>>>
>>> I think that those smoky, grey (whoops; "gray"), semi-transparent windows
>>> in Mac are really very sexy; but they would be a lot sexier if they could
>>> be
>>> used to contain/present fully opaque objects (such as images).
>>>
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