Mic Expand and Transparent Background in Full Screen

[gabeshaughnessy]

Mac OS 10.5.6
I've noticed that when I am in Full Screen mode with a Transparent Background and I activate the Mic Expand Effect, I lose the transparent background. As soon as I turn the Mic Expand effect off, I can get the transparent background by exiting full screen and re-entering full screen.
This wouldn't be that big of a deal, except I am using Alchemy in a projection environment and exiting full screen isn't an option (harshes the mellow). As a result, I just don't use the Mic Expand. Its kind of a bummer though, because the Mic Expand is sooo cool with live music.
Here is a screen capture demonstration. Sorry about the water mark, I hope its not too distracting.

[Karl DD]

Thanks for that!
This is definitely a bug and I will move this to the known bugs forum.

Just a side note, the 'transparent fullscreen' is actually just showing a screen grab of the desktop behind the drawing. It won't show a moving video under the drawing for example.
So it would appear the background is not being updated properly - it happens for the Repeat & Random modules too.

What sort of stuff are you doing with projections?
The other thing with the fullscreen mode is that right now we cover the other window with black. Will most likely get rid of that for the next version.

[gabeshaughnessy]

I'd love to have my other screen visible during full screen mode instead of covered by the black.
Here;s some of what I am doing with projection (this uses vdmx and photoshop, not alchemy, but alchemy is quickly working its way into the mix as I get the hang of it):

[surpher]

Just a side note, the 'transparent fullscreen' is actually just showing a screen grab of the desktop behind the drawing. It won't show a moving video under the drawing for example.

I've noticed Alchemy often screen grabs itself when using Transparent Fullscreen.

[Karl DD]

I've noticed Alchemy often screen grabs itself when using Transparent Fullscreen.

Yeah, it uses a delay to allow the window to clear, then it grabs the screen.
I will have to look into a more intelligent way to do this because I am sure that it will not work the same for different systems.

[Karl DD]

These bugs have been fixed for version 008.