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September 20, 2007

Using Quicktime to display CMYK images

Darkstar 2D's CompositeQuickTime.createImageFromQT should work on OS X and you end up with a apple.awt.OSXImage. Fun fact: searching for apple.awt.OSXImage on Google gives me 10 hits.
CMYK test image - 592 kb (in RGB below)

cmyk_test.jpg

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September 17, 2007

Color masking and sprite tiles

Wow.. written by a high school senior. The mask and sprite code is really cool. So I made a Javascript “mashup” in Darkstar FX.

One thing that is strange. My color picker (Colorspace) reports that the green in the Mario tile is #008500 in Firefox but #007300 when I paint the same image in Java 2D or open the file in Photoshop.

mario2.png

mario_fx.png

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September 11, 2007

Colorspace 1.5, Layout 3.2, FX 3.2 and Darkstar 20070905

New features:

Colorspace supports the scroll wheel. One NPE fixed. Both fixes by Luan. Decimal values are written to standard output when the decimal check box is selected. 200-500ms shaved off About dialog launch. Colorspace no longer runs under a security policy since it causes to many problems on OS X.

Darkstar applications now have focus aware menus under Titanium LAF. A feature from the stone age. Just use com.teppefall.ds.Application in the same way as before. This means that the foreground color of your menu goes dark (under Titanium) when the JFrame loses focus.

The DSR executable supports the -Xchrome parameter. This turns on the native chrome and is the same as -Dteppefall.chrome=true.

DSR can launch multiple applications at the same time. Just add a comma separator between class names. A word of warning though. Running threads might block the shutdown process, so closing down resources on application exit is paramount. Note that DSR today has a very high probability of not closing down properly.

Other issues:

If Darkstar FX is unable to create HTML and thumbnails you should try the -Xinsecure parameter. FX and Layout run under security managers and can fail if the policy file is not perfect. Strange problems when running under DSR might also be a result of the security policy.

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August 31, 2007

Misguided love for own design

The Opera web browser comes with the “Opera Standard” Look and Feel per default and this bugs me to no avail. Opera also supports “Windows Native” which on Vista looks so much better than “Opera Standard”. Switch dammit !

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