Unlock Screen Visual Effect Broken?

[Scott Rossi]

Recently, "Dave Cragg"  wrote:

>> I was curious if anyone else can confirm that unlock screen + visual effects
>> is broken on Windows MC2.5.  I have two machines here on which I tried:
>> 
>> on mouseUp
>>     lock screen
>>     if the vis of btn 1 then
>>         hide btn 1
>>     else show btn 1
>>     unlock screen with visual dissolve
>> end mouseUp
>> 
>> ...along with several other visual effects, and no effect is visible when
>> the button is hidden/shown.
>> 
>> The above works fine for me on MC2.4.2 Win and on MC2.5 Mac systems.
> 
> It works here with dontUseQTEffects set to true but not to false.
> 
> I don't remember for sure, but I'd guess the QT effects weren't used
> at all in 2.4.2.

In fact, they were, since you get that roughly 5 second "initializing" delay
before the first effect displays.

But still, the QT effect transitions are apparently not working in 2.5.
[sigh] 

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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