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Hello all,

I was wondering whether it is at all possible to create an irregular shaped window in Revolution Enterprise? I can't see anything in the docs that would indicate what I seek is possible, however more experienced hands than I might know for sure.

I was toying with the design of a dashboard style application, and was just thinking aloud.

Kind regards,

Andrew

What you are looking for is the windowShape property. It requires an image with an alpha channel to give the stack its shape.

All the best,

Malte

Thanks Malte,

Apologies for my ignorance, I breezed past the windowShape property when skimming the docs.

Irregular shaped windows I believe, open up some nice possibilities for innovative UI.

PS: I hope to have time over Christmas to think and play with Animation Engine, with a view to developing something tangible with it in the new year.

Thanks again,

Andrew

Hey Andrew,

if you do, please let me know. Always eager to learn what people do with my libs.

Cheers,

Malte

There is a lesson on window shapes on the new lessons.runrev.com site that is worth checking out:

How to make a stack with a window shape

That's a great link with useful code. Thanks for posting! Cheers,

Hello Malte and Trevor,

Priceless help gentlemen, thank you again.

Trevor, I seem to spend a couple of hours everyday (lately) emersed in data grids. I am enjoying every minute of it. I have been building a revolution UI, control panels and dashboard for my web data mining suite, which is written in predominantly in PHP.

Malte, I will definitely let you know of my plans for Animation Engine (directly- off forum) when I have the spec a little more polished.

Kind regards,

Andrew