BobbyC, This is a really "Quite Awesome" program. You ought to be really proud of yourself. FutureBASIC and OS X -- what a combo!!!! ---- Scott Spencer SJ3 Solutions sj3@... On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 09:54 PM, Robert Covington wrote: > > Since my pool of beta testers is rather quiet, I thought I'd make this > public now. > > Compositor v2.5 b3 for OS X (only) is available. You can go to this > page for more information and the download link. > > Info : < http://www.artlythere.com/carbonstatus.shtml > > > Or direct (read the release notes) > Download < > http://www.artlythere.com/macsoft/beta/compositor_x_beta.hqx > (2.2MB) > > Please read the 2 short docs for handy information. > [Compositor for OS X requires v10.1.5 or higher, 10.2 or higher is > best. The more RAM the better. If you have registered Compositor > before, do not register again, there's no need, unless it's burning a > hole in your pocket or you won the lottery, which means I get half > anyway, since Compositor's pixels have special lotto properties. ] > > > What is it? For those who haven't heard of it, Compositor is an image > editing and image to art application with some nice features. The OS X > version is way beyond the old classic version in its ability to handle > large images. I can open up a 33 MB image now and handle that pretty > easily (new speedier temp file setup). The program is best for 6MB and > below in general though. > > You can apply art effects to movies, image sequences, and single > images (the norm). Export movies to image sequences. Whatever. Save > your actions, and run them on other images. There are many actions > included. You can save and reload your selections as well. There are > over 150 filters and variations possible. including over a dozen Paste > modes. Plus there's a full editing and painting tool set. > > There are some changes to the OS X version over the Classic which is > to be updated to this version still...the main one is that I have some > Magbots in the window corner now for easy zooming, and a much better > New image dialog, due to how easy Appearance runtime makes popups > handling. Even the magbots were simple due to Apperance PICT buttons. > Made it easy. > > This is the 6th or so version since testing began. While it isn't > perfect yet, I have suffered no crashing behavior in a while. If you > do suffer a crash, if you can remember what you were doing, please let > me know and send me the crash log (if there's anything other than just > numbers in the last few threads...a name helps) If you can replicate > it, that's even more helpful. People who read docs, and who can > replicate bugs are the max. :) > > If you do suffer a crash, there is a good chance you will have a temp > file remaining, and Compositor will move that to the app folder on the > next run, and let you know. You can then Import it again as Compositor > Raw, and see if it is worth saving. The "No Zoom" magbot icon was > even restored this way. ( and shortly after I figured out the > anti-aliasing bug from a faulty clipped rect that was the root cause > of the crash) > > > Anybody using 10.2 please verify that Saving a file As Copy, clipboard > and such works, as there's a Quickdraw bug in Copybits when copying to > the same GWorld back then , when making PICTs, etc. > > Send any problem reports direct to <artlythere@...> > > If you have registered Compositor before, do not register again! You > are covered. Thanks to those on this list that have supported this > program, including my number one ever registrant, George Vail. :) > Andy Pritchard has been a big help in beta testing over the lifetime > of this program, that is until he got him a new woman, and went AWOL. > I think he's been kidnapped by aliens, sometime in March. > > Due to all the changes required for OS X it was impossible to maintain > a single build code base, thus there will be a divergence between > Classic and OSX version from here on out, especially since Appearance > runtime and OSX allows for improvements that can't be done elsewhere. > Though the Classic viersion will always be snappier due to OSX's > double buffered windows and QTFlushPortBuffer. > > I thought it would take me like a month to get up to speed with OS > X... ha! Ha! HA! No way, hose say (ho's say? Who's to say). Has been > one hurdle after another. Hopefully I have enough altitude to clear > what's left. > > Sorry to write a book, I have a lot invested in this thing at this > point. Can't take the solitary confinement of programming much longer > though I don't think, hopefully I can get some balance back soon. > > Robert Covington > Artly There Software (ha, sounds so official) > > http://www.artlythere.com/ > > (Link to Carbon status page is on the front page also) > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send ANY message to > <futurebasic-unsubscribe@...> > >