wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren) (11/12/88)
It appears that visual effects (regardless of the speed at which they are 'played') don't work on our MacII machines (both 256 color, 5 MB, running system software 6.02, HyperCard 1.2). Examples which most definitely work on, say, a Mac+ fail to show any effects when run on one of these machines. What am I missing, or what didn't I read somewhere? Wade Blomgren wade@sdacs.ucsd.edu
pa1505@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Barry Brown) (11/12/88)
In article <54@sdacs.ucsd.EDU> wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren) writes: >It appears that visual effects (regardless of the speed at which >they are 'played') don't work on our MacII machines (both 256 color, >5 MB, running system software 6.02, HyperCard 1.2). Examples which >most definitely work on, say, a Mac+ fail to show any effects when >run on one of these machines. Hypercard is largely a black and white application. Consequently, it doesn't know how to handle the color on the Mac II. In order to use the visual effects in HyperCard, you should switch the Mac II to monochrome mode. HyperCard should work as expect then. Barry Brown pa1505@sdcc15.ucsd.edu
dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) (11/16/88)
In article <54@sdacs.ucsd.EDU> wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren) writes: >It appears that visual effects (regardless of the speed at which >they are 'played') don't work on our MacII machines (both 256 color, >5 MB, running system software 6.02, HyperCard 1.2). Examples which >most definitely work on, say, a Mac+ fail to show any effects when >run on one of these machines. Visual effects do not work with color or other types of multi-bit monitors when they are in multi-bit mode. If you select b/w 1 bit mode, then visual effects work fine (as long as hypercard is running on the main screen (screen with the menubar) on a multiple-screen Mac II setup). Why? Well, to do neat visual effects requires directly writing to the screen, which gets more complicated with 8 bits per pixel. We want to support this sometime (its doable) but we just haven't got around to implementing it yet. Dan Allen Apple Computer