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- From: dblackbu@alleg.edu (Dave Blackburn)
- Subject: Re: Visual Effects in Monitor Millions mode
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.235144.832@pellns.alleg.edu>
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- Organization: Allegheny College
- References: <a.hopson-191192082520@macm6210.trl.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:51:44 GMT
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- In article <a.hopson-191192082520@macm6210.trl.oz.au> a.hopson@trl.oz.au (Alan
- Hopson) writes:
- |Could anyone please help me with following problem I have encountered using
- |Hypercard 2.1?
- |
- |I specified a "barn door open" visual effect for changing betwen two cards
- |in a stack which resulted in the following behavior under different monitor
- |depth settings:
- | Monitor Setting Visual Effect Observed
- | 256 barn door open
- | thousands wipe down
- | millions wipe down
- |
- |Can anyone explain why the visual effect is ignored when the monitor depth
- |is set above 8 bits?
- |
- |This is a problem because I am working with 24-bit images under Quicktime
- |and would like to get the visual effects working.
- |
- |System Specifications: Mac IIfx, E-Machines 19" monitor + Futura MX video
- |card
- | Sys 7.0 with Tune-up, Quicktime 1.5
- |
- |Thanks in advance
- |
- |Alan.
- |_________________________________________________________________________
- |Alan Hopson | Voice: +61 3 253 6749
- |Telecom Research Laboratories | Fax: +61 3 253 6352
- |P.O. Box 249, Clayton, Vic, 3168, | Internet: a.hopson@trl.oz.au
- |Australia. |
- |_________________________________________________________________________
-
- Well, that answers a question I'd been wondering about. A couple people have
- posted saying they can't do it on the LC's, now I know it's a Hypercard thing,
- not a hardware thing. Looks like 256 is the most colors a vis. effect can have
- running.
- --
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