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CarbonG4 · 03:58 AM

Max, Swiz, Smeger, etc etc etc -- i need you guys to bail me out again:

<rant>
It's happening in PXM 15,000 (menu title selected left cap) that Smeger hacked into the 'layo' of Meteora for me.

As you can see in the picture, it's spitting up yellow garbage pixels on the right edge of the cap... it's really pissing me off because I've tried just about everything. It doesn't seem to be an issue w/ ThemePark at all because the same anomaly appears when I edit Meteora in Sprocket. I think it's just the blue gradient being rejected, I didn't have any problems w/ the caps when the fill was orange/peach instead of the new blue.

Themeing just isn't fun when you have to constantly find solutions and workarounds for an OS that doesn't want to be themed.</rant>

//Carbon

edit: /me hopes the subject of the thread doesn't act as a motive for you guys

bOOzo · May 27, 2003, 04:17 AM

Index the original image and then paste it back in, that should solve it.

swiz · May 27, 2003, 08:53 AM

I had this same thing happen just yesterday. Lucky for me though it wasnt happening with any images which changed pixels from horizontally (it was just a vertical gradient fill) so my fix was just to select 1px wide of the image and let ThemePark stretch it. It worked.

I'll be sure to try Max's suggestion from now on though.

wagmedia · May 27, 2003, 09:45 AM

Originally posted by bOOzo:
Index the original image and then paste it back in, that should solve it.

Seriously Max, how DO you know all this stuff? It just makes my head spin...

bOOzo · May 27, 2003, 12:51 PM

Originally posted by wagmedia:
Seriously Max, how DO you know all this stuff? It just makes my head spin...

He.. well, maybe I'm just to obsessed with theming?
I'm just glad I can help.

x user · May 27, 2003, 01:15 PM

Originally posted by bOOzo:
He.. well, maybe I'm just to obsessed with theming?
I'm just glad I can help.

Yep, that's gotta be it

CarbonG4 · May 27, 2003, 03:36 PM

Originally posted by bOOzo:
Index the original image and then paste it back in, that should solve it.

I cannot believe the solution was that simple... thank you for knowing all this stuff dude

//Carbon

smeger · May 27, 2003, 08:04 PM

Originally posted by CarbonG4:
I cannot believe the solution was that simple... thank you for knowing all this stuff dude

//Carbon

I'd still like to know what the actual problem is - I don't like forcing people who use my software to require work-arounds for things as simple as pasting in images.

Since Sprocket does it too, I'd guess that it's either a bug in the OS or in Photoshop. Photoshop places a PICT on the clipboard, which needs to be converted to a TIFF by ThemePark. I don't know how Sprocket does it.

If someone could come up with a test case image where everything works fine until you change a single pixel, that'd be great to test with.

It's probably YAPM (Yet Another Premultiplication Problem). Seems like that's what it always comes down to...

fireside · May 27, 2003, 11:14 PM

smeger: any more progress on ThemePark 1.0?

smeger · May 28, 2003, 04:37 AM

Originally posted by fireside:
smeger: any more progress on ThemePark 1.0?

Not too much - for the past three weeks I've either been out of town or had friends from out of town here. I haven't had much coding time. But fortunately, there's not much left to do.

fireside · May 28, 2003, 07:34 PM

cool, cool. i cant wait to know what the stuff in the other catogories besides "pxm#" mean