[06 Apr 2008] Hollywood on Mac OS X

[jap]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on 06 Apr 2008 11:02:10 +0300

Hello,

I've discovered that on Mac OS X there are trash pixels on transparent PNG objects. The pixels appear on the transparent area. I've made my "presentation" with Designer using a single color background image (dark grey) and a transparent PNG image (attached to this e-mail). I'm using "Load alpha channel" transparency.

An another thing which is bothering me is that the full screen display mode and title bar (menu bar) hiding doesn't seem work with OS X. The menu bar and (not full screen) presentation window are always there, no matter which settings I choose with Designer.

There is also a problem with creating an OS X executable. Hollywood says that it cannot create .app directory if the directory already exists. This is how you reproduce the problem:

1) Create an OS X executable.

2) Create an OS X executable again.

My Mac has an OS X version 10.4.11, 1.83 GHz Intel CPU, and 1 GB of memory.

My Hollywood and Designer versions are:

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Hollywood package: 3.1 (22.03.08)
Hollywood system base: 3.1 (25.03.08)
Hollywood kernel: 3.1 (22.03.08)
Hollywood platform: AmigaOS4

Designer package: 2.1 (23.03.08)
Designer system base: 2.0 (01.02.08)
Designer platform: AmigaOS4

-- JANNE janne.email-address-removed@nospam.com

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:52:54 +0200

Hello,

I've discovered that on Mac OS X there are trash pixels on transparent PNG objects. The pixels appear on the transparent area. I've made my "presentation" with Designer using a single color background image (dark grey) and a transparent PNG image (attached to this e-mail). I'm using "Load alpha channel" transparency.

Hmm, I just tested PNG alpha transparency here and it works just fine. Maybe the problem is related to the Intel Mac's PPC emulation. Can you send me the HWS script with the accompanying data files? Then I'll see if it works here. Please send it to email-address-removed@nospam.com, not to the list.

An another thing which is bothering me is that the full screen display mode and title bar (menu bar) hiding doesn't seem work with OS X. The menu bar and (not full screen) presentation window are always there, no matter which settings I choose with Designer.

Hmm, yeah, that's a Designer bug. But Hollywood is able to go full screen under Mac OS.

You need to edit the file "Info.plist" inside the application bundle that was created by Hollywood. There you will find a key named "CFBundleExecutableArgs". Set this key to "-fullscreen" and it will work.

I will fix this for the next Designer update. Thanks for the report.

There is also a problem with creating an OS X executable. Hollywood says that it cannot create .app directory if the directory already exists. This is how you reproduce the problem:

I will fix this too.

[jap]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on 09 Apr 2008 01:26:03 +0300

Hmm, I just tested PNG alpha transparency here and it works just fine. Maybe the problem is related to the Intel Mac's PPC emulation. Can you send me the HWS script with the accompanying data files? Then I'll see if it works here. Please send it to email-address-removed@nospam.com, not to the list.

Done.

You need to edit the file "Info.plist" inside the application bundle that was created by Hollywood. There you will find a key named "CFBundleExecutableArgs". Set this key to "-fullscreen" and it will work.

Okay, I'll try that. Thanks!

I will fix this too.

Thank you!

-- JANNE janne.email-address-removed@nospam.com