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From: edmoy@opal.berkeley.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: problems with visual effects
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Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 14:43:22 EST
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In article <6765@apple.UUCP> hyperbug@apple.UUCP (Keith Rollin) writes:
>It's OK; we know about this one. Actually, it's not a bug, but an honest
>to <name your diety> feature that the programmers worked hard at to put in.
>Because of speed and memory limitation (mostly speed), visual effects are
>disabled when your screen is using 2 or more bits per pixel. You can get the
>visual effects back by pulling up the Control Panel and using the Monitors
>cdev to set the display back to 1 bit/pixel (2 color mode).
>
>The default wipe is "Plain", I think. This just plops the new card over the
>other, with no effects other than the one inherant in a BlockMove().
>-- 
>
>Apple's HyperCard Grievance Center
>"Give us your bugs, your comments, your gentle criticisms..."
>
>UUCP:  {pyramid!sun,voder,nsc,ucbvax!mtxinu,dual,decwrl,amdahl}!apple!hyperbug

I suggest having this a configurable option on the next version of HyperCard.
I think many (if not most) people would be willing to give up speed for some
of the neat visual effects.  Setting the screen back to 1 bit is a pain.
Also, if someone wrote an external command that could display color, then
he could have both color and visual effects.

Edward Moy
Academic Computing Services
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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