Re: [Civil-devel]Fading dialogs

[Jan E. <ch...@in...>]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Gareth Noyce wrote:

>
>>
>>I'm not sure I know what you mean here. I took the original dialog as it
>>was, put on a fullscreen black surface with 128 alpha, which generates the
>>faded effect. Then I just blitted on top of that the "message box" (in
>>this case the splash) without any alpha ort similar.
>
>It's the background for the message box I was referring to, the alpha 
>covered 'dialog' BDrp is fine.
>
>You'd need a backdrop for the message box, one with and without a progress 
>bar, and I'd like both to emulate the style of the background to the rest 
>of the dialogs (old school photo, with few colours etc...) -- I'm probably 
>going to run the 'Network Loading' splash screen that you've been using 
>temporarily so that it is also matches the sepia scratched photo feel.

Ah, ok. We'll see then.

>No probs, I'll have a look into it tomorrow night. It's my ladies birthday 
>today! :)

A good advice is to *not* sit in front of your computer tonight... :-)

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