Chipp Walters wrote: "ButtonGadget has been making different shaped buttons for Rev for years."
Yes, I know; but I have no money! And, I am on a never-ending quest for a cheap (preferably FREE) solution to what I regard as everyday problems in Runtime Revolution. I also suppose, the good folks who make ButtonGadget would not be overly pleased if I took their stuff apart (i.e. reverse engineering) and ripped them off - quite apart from an awkward feeling that I have that may not be terribly moral. J. Landman Gay wrote: "Just draw the shape you want with it." Um, I've never been a great fan of the graphic tools contained within Runtime Revolution. However, as I have just found out: "ODD BUTTONS.rev" at revOnline, any old GIF or PNG with transparent bits behaves perfectly well as an odd-shaped button - I made mine in GIMP. What "threw me off balance" was what you said about 'points', nothing else. What i should like to do is make a stack rather like my recent "BUTTON BASHER.rev" that can do the same sort of work for rather predictable buttons that are non-rectangular: such as circles, ellipses, and polygons. However, Button Basher relies on EXPORT SNAPSHOT which has two disadvantages: 1. A snapshot is always rectangular. 2. It never contains transparent areas. Now I am well aware I can set up scaleable circles, ellipses and so on: but the main problem is how to combine those with button texts (that are also adjustable) and then export the end-result as a GIF or PNG image. I had a look at an early version of ButtonGadget and admire it greatly, and do not really wish to compete with it in terms of all those delicious glassy buttons and so on. What I do think is fantastic is how the developers seem to manage to get around the problem I have just described. Hey-Ho: lots of coffee and not enough sleep for me :) sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution