On Oct 12, 2011, at 9:55 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Could you perhaps use thumbnails for initial button presentation and then 
> pull in the detailed layers as needed?
-- Thats what am trying to avoid having to do.

> 
> If you're layering the images, could you use a snapshot to contain the set of 
> all underlying layers as a new layer is added?
-- No, I need dynamic showing/hiding as a user peels on and off the layers to 
study how the art is applied to the page.
Because everything is put into ram, I am hitting a wall. And I need to keep the 
images large enough to allow users see the page at actual size due to the art 
design is complex. 

If LC supported SVG and SVG effects, perhaps a vector approach but then is 
there a limit to how many data points to a path?? One of the biggest 
disappointments for me in 5.0 is the lack of improved vector support and the 
styled unicode field. Rev is till stuck in a 1985 bitmap world. Sigh.
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