Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ccicpg!felix!john From: john@felix.UUCP (John Gilbert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: problems with visual effects Message-ID: <13386@felix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 13:49:52 EST Article-I.D.: felix.13386 Posted: Thu Nov 19 13:49:52 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 19:07:15 EST References: <4@ovaltine.berkeley.edu> <13160@felix.UUCP> <6765@apple.UUCP> Sender: daemon@felix.UUCP Reply-To: john@felix.UUCP (John Gilbert) Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA Lines: 36 In article <6765@apple.UUCP> hyperbug@apple.UUCP (Keith Rollin) writes: >In article <13160@felix.UUCP> john@felix.UUCP (John Gilbert) writes: >>I had never heard of it, but I have observed the exact same thing. I had >>a small presentation stack with some nice dissolves in it which failed to >>do anything but some default, tho I think the default was wipe down, which >>I don't think is the normal default. At any rate, I wanted to lend >>credence to your report. >> > >It's OK; we know about this one. Actually, it's not a bug, but an honest >to 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). > This seems more like a limitation than a "feature". A feature would probably allow for global defaults to turn the thing on or off. My scripts use dissolve. I actually want them to go somewhat slow (Mac + speed is almost faster than I want). If speed is the driveing factor, why not let the user decide if they want the effects on or off after they see how fast it is. In my case, my presentation has some cards that are aligned such that a dissolve has a very nice fading effect, and the wipe just looks bad. Is there any plan for supporting such global parameters which can be controled for the individual machine? Ones that last longer than the duration of the particular message handler script? I can understand them not being in the first release, but will we ever see them? John Gilbert -- John Gilbert !trwrb!felix!john