Excellent contribution. I am sure that many have done battle and given up. Thanks Jim Ault Las Vegas
On 6/5/06 10:11 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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