Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 16 May 2000, Stephen T. Pope wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > a) How can I get the start-up animation to hook in to the VM so the
> > user's screen simply fades, rather than flashing a small window, then
> > the default-sized window, then the fade. It'd be nice for Squeak to come
> > up full-screen by default and to "fade" in and out.
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you mean by this ... Do you want the VM to
> initialize the Display bitmap with the host screen contents? That would be
> cool, indeed!

Yes, I guess that would do it -- hey, VM guys, can we do this?


> Other comments:
> 
> - Fading works only in 8 bit display depth.

But I use the halftone-based fades! Doesn't that look OK at lower bit depths???


Thanks for your other comments -- I'll release an updated version later today.

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stp
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