Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

151.0. "New on-screen disappearing act!" by STAR::NELSON () Thu Jun 08 1989 19:19

    OK, ya wanna hear somethin' really WEIRD?
    
    I've developed a way to erase -- that's right, erase! -- 
    text I'm reading online!
    
    All you do is insert a section reference (in parentheses)
    at the end of a bolded <qpair> line. When the line comes
    up on your screen in the Bookreader, the final parenthesis
    will moosh up against the final number. But, hey, that's a
    problem you can make disappear! All you have to do is move
    your mouse up and down across this line a few times to make
    the click-on box appear and disappear. And guess what?! As
    the box comes and goes, it slowly erodes away the parenthesis
    until you've just got little bits and pieces here and there
    that you can easily ignore. 
    
    Poof!

    The 'mooshing' of parentheses is most likely a function of the 
    rounding off necessary to place characters on pixel boundaries
    on the screen. On a very low resolution monitor, such as the
    75-dot-per-inch workstation monitor, this will occur fairly
    often and be fairly visible. We are used to 300- and 600-dpi
    laser printers and typesetters which can produce much higher
    quality output. 
    
    V2.0 of the Bookreader uses a different method of drawing
    boxes that does not 'erode' the text.
    
    Mary

if you move the mouse over it once and lose some pixels, it's a
known problem and is fixed in V2 as Mary mentioned.  If successive
moves cause more pixels to be dropped (from the same hotspot),
I'd like to hear more about it.

thanks,
joe

    You're right -- once is enough!