For the past two years I've benefited greatly from advice given through this forum, so I'd like to give something back in return. Creating cursors in Revolution has been problematic. Despite creating 16x16 images in black and white, sometimes the cursors do not show up correctly on both platforms. Sometimes there is only a white square or a black filled-in image. The following method shows how to produce perfect cursors every time for both Macintosh and Windows (qualifier: I used Mac OS X, Revolution 2.7 and Photoshop 7.0 to create them, and I'm not sure how other versions would work):
Directions for making cursors in Revolution: 1. Open Photoshop. Name the image, Mode being RGB color, Background Transparent, and width and height 16 pixels. 2. Change Image/Mode to Indexed Color, using the defaults for indexed color (Palette: Exact; Forced: Web; Transparency checked; Matte: none) 3. With image maximally magnified, used the pencil tool to insert black or white pixels. Enclosed areas can be filled with white or black if desired and pixels can be erased if desired. 4. Save as PNG. 5. Bring the PNG image into Revolution and note it's ID number (it may be 1003 for instance). 6. In the script to call the cursor write: on mouseUp set lockcursor to true set the cursor to 1003 -- if that's the ID number end mouseUp It is interesting that sometimes there can two identical pictures in Photoshop, one of which will show up cursors correctly and the other will show up only a white square or a black filled image, even though all the parameters in Photoshop seem to be the same!! I don't know why this should be the case but it implies that there is something different about the two images even if not apparent. This can be easily corrected either by creating a new Photoshop 16x16 document, carefully duplicating the pixels of the defective image, or more simply, just pasting the defective image into the new Photoshop document. The cursors should then appear fine. I plan to attend the Revolution conference next week in Monterey and will bring 25 cursors I've created for those interested in using them. Perhaps they might be incorporated into a future version of Revolution. Steve Goldberg President, MedMaster Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] www. medmaster.net _______________________________________________ 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
