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I am using Rev Media v. 4 under the Windows XP OS.
I have followed the steps in the "How to make a stack with a window shape" tutorial
and the result is always a grey area of the original stack rectangle with the graphic image displayed on it.
It seems the transparency required to achieve a shaped window is not functioning.
Am I the only one with this problem? Am I missing something? Can anyone help?

My system will not correctly display stacks with a windowShape set to an image.
I end up with a grey rectangular area of the initial stack shape (as well as the image being used).
Even other stacks created by experts are the same.
For example I have downloaded and run stack bouncy.rev [Bouncy 1.0, copyright 2003 by Geoff Canyon -- geoff@runrev.com]
The Bouncy stack works fine, i.e. it bounces fine, but the stack window shape
is still a grey rectangle (with the rev logo on it), i.e. the transparency needed for shaped
windows ain't there.
Thus I assume the problem lies somewhere between the Rev application and the Windows OS
or my graphics drivers. I am running Windows XP SP3 and have no other problems.
I have a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 graphics card, with the most up to date (Windows approved) drivers,
set for (and displaying) 32 bit color. Whether or not it's relevant I have DirextX vers 9.0c.
My various graphics programs display PNG files with transparency.
My PNG files display correctly (with transparency) in web pages I create.
I am really disappointed that I cannot achieve what Revolution says can be done in a such a simple way.
BTW I've tried and failed also using a GIF file rather than a PNG.
I would really appreciate some advice as I don't know how to proceed further.

I did a new install of RevMedia 4 on an old, slow (and small screened) computer on my network and
of course stacks with a windowShape looked and worked just fine.
So now I will uninstall the 2 old versions of Rev that i have as well as the new Rev 4 on my main computer
and do a new install of Rev 4. And then will still probably have to face up to the task of a new install of Windows,
or somehow do something about the graphics card driver, or maybe eliminate all references to PNGs in the registry
and hope they will get rebuilt or whatever, - it's all got a bit too tehnical for me.
But if anyone wants to make a suggestion I'm only too happy to try to understand it.