At 7:40 AM -0600 11/22/01, Mark MacKenzie (Shaw) wrote: >Am I correct in my assumption that a floating pallet stack window cannot >have an invisible background such that a larger stack beneath shows through? >This is where I originally went wrong and became confused.
No, you can't (easily) make one window show through another. On the Mac, at least, there is a way to do this that doesn't have anything to do with Revolution. It involves using a special window type, and that's about all I know about it. There used to be a thing called Odo (the shape-shifting character on Star Trek: Deep Space 9) that would do this, and QuickTime 5 has it built in. I don't know how they're doing it. >Next question: Is it possible to protect resource media from copiers >without using the Valentina XCMD and its ability to hold blob references. >Is this possible within the basic Revolution framework? Reliable techniques >to achieve this are of great concern to us and our clients. Let me hasten >to add that my usual projects are resource rich and I use file references to >keep the stacks from bloating beyond reasonable limits. > >With iShell I use a companion encrypted database product which handles all >resource file reference and storage within the encrypted database. A >beautiful and fast solution. (After looking carefully at Valentina I wonder >if "iPackager" is not based on the main Valentina engine.) How serious do you want the protection to be? I don't think Revolution cares about the type or extension of a file, so it should be possible to have all the images, sounds, etc., show as generic to the file system. It wouldn't stop someone from importing them to Photoshop, though. regards, gc
