Ivan Granger

I've got a strange question for the group-- After limping along for too many weeks with the pre-release version of FM10 on one of my Macs, I finally installed FM Adv 10.0.1. I realized there was a problem, though, when I tried to launch FMP Adv 8.5 and discovered that a couple of old plug-ins I still depend on suddenly wouldn't load. Old copies of ExportFM and SMTPit that had been loading in FMP 8.5 just fine, now suddenly will not load. The only obvious change I made to my system was installing FMP 10. Does anyone know why the 10 installation would affect plug-in loading for 8.5? More importantly, can you suggest a fix that will allow them to load once more? Thanks for any help.

A few months ago I was working on a project where the client stores a series of PNG images with transparency in a FileMaker db via reference, and they wanted to be able to display those images via Instant Web Publishing through a browser. The sticky part was that they wanted the images to be layered, one overlapping the other, while maintaining image transparency -- so you can see the overlapping images as a single image through the browser. I built a proof of concept file in conjunction with SC 1.8, and it worked great. (Actually, I never got the layered images to display correctly through the layered web viewers in the FMP layout, but once viewed through the browser via IWP, it worked fine, which was the most important thing.) In preparation for the final project I upgraded to SuperContainer 2.042 -- and it no longer works. You can now only see the front-most image in the browser, and the transparent elements are opaque. Is there a workaround you can suggest? Or, if not, is this something that will be fixed in an upcoming version? Thanks!