Best Way to Show Image Full Screen (without menu bar)

[jdmcs]

Forget fancy Photoshop trickery to pull it off, I would like to show a 512x384 image full-screen on my Macintosh SE for video thumbnail creation. What is the best way to pull this off? Rounded corners are OK, but I don't want the pesky menu bar or mouse cursor getting in the way.

I'm open to using System 6 or System 7, and while the image is currently in a modern format, I should be able to use Graphic Converter to convert it to something the SE would like (PICT format?).

 

[YMK]

Take a look at this thread:

https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/display-graphic-full-screen-on-mac-se.1607/

 

[pocketscience]

I still reckon After Dark is super easy to do this...

 

[Crutch]

As I pointed out in the thread linked above, HyperCard can do it. Pull up a card, paste your picture into it, open the message box (Cmd-M), type “hide menubar”.

Quoting myself, in response to a question about how one then hides the mouse cursor:
https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/display-graphic-full-screen-on-mac-se.1607/post-12505

you can hide the cursor in HyperCard for as long as you like without any coding.

All you need to do is to put a text field on your card, and type some spaces into it until the blinking insertion point is off the screen.
Here’s how.

* Open a stack with the image you want to display.
* set userlevel to 5 (type “set userlevel to 5” in the message box)
* Select the Field tool
* Under Objects, select “New Field”
* Position the field so that it very small and all the way in the bottom right corner of the screen
* Select the Browse tool
* Hide the menu bar (type “hide menu bar” in the message box)
* Position the mouse cursor in your new field and click
* Press the spacebar a few times to get the blinking insertion point past the edge of the field

The mouse cursor will be hidden as per typical Mac UI behavior when you are entering text. It will remain hidden until you move the mouse.

You could set this up once, save the stack and just paste in a new image when you want to re-use it.

 

[Mu0n]

@jdmcs

1st of all, a full screen Mac SE is 512x342 resolution, not 512x384

2nd, if you're in a limited resource environment (say, a 400kb or 800kb diskette) and can't carry a big program like hypercard alongside a bootable early System disk, consider using my MacPaint or PICT viewer programs I coded myself in C, in the same thread linked by @YMK and @Crutch , lemme get the exact posts for you:

PICT loader: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/display-graphic-full-screen-on-mac-se.1607/post-12475

MacPaint loader: https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/display-graphic-full-screen-on-mac-se.1607/post-12491

 

[SolitairePilot]

I found while waiting for a tedious program to install that you can tuck the mouse cursor ‘outside’ the screen’ if you set it just right on the top right corner of the screen lol.