thin grey outline on edge of white actors on iPhone 5

GamePizza

This problem only occurs during testing on an iPhone 5. I have white actors on a white background. The actors contain text. On the iPhone 5, a thin grey line appears around the edge of the white actors. I can't explain where the grey lines come from. The lines don't appear on GameSalad Creator nor on iPhone 4. Would anyone have any ideas where the lines might be coming from and what I can do to fix the problem?

gyroscope

Hi @GamePizza when you say the actors contain text, do you mean Display text on a blank white actor, or text on a white background as a graphic brought in?

GamePizza

Not Display text behaviour. The actors have no behaviour. They have text as part of their graphic. Maybe it doesn't matter.

GamePizza

I modified a swipe menu template I downloaded from the web. It is a legacy iPhone template. It's using Control Camera behaviour. Those might be reasons I am seeing this behaviour on iPhone 5.

gyroscope

The Control Camera behaviour or modifying a template, even a legacy one, won't have anything at all to do with producing the grey outline on the graphics, I don't think.

The reason why I asked if it was a graphic of text including the type is to find out if the grey outline is originating from the graphic itself - and by the sound of it, it does.

So there's a choice of simple solutions, which I'm sure you can guess, just open it in any graphics program and fill the area to the edges with white. Alternatively crop all the images to crop off the edges; or remake with your type on a transparent background.

Whatever, hope you get it sorted as you want.

GamePizza

Thanks very much for your feedback on this issue! I double and triple checked the images, there is absolutely no grey lines in the images. If there was, it would show in GameSalad Creator and iPhone 4. But no grey lines show in GSC or i4, only on iPhone 5 and not consistently. The app scrolls. It's a swipe menu. When the user swipes the screen, the screen moves. When the screen moves, thin grey lines flicker around the edges of the actors on the screen. I can stop the screen at certain points so these grey lines do not appear.

Here is the template:
http://thermoapps.wordpress.com/gamesalad/free-swipe-menu-template/

I have a white background actor that covers the whole background. Imported some white .png images with black text to place over the white background. GSC 0.10.4.1. iPhone 5 iOS 6.0.1.

gyroscope

Oh, OK, I see what you mean, @GamePizza. Hmm, I'm as puzzled as you now…

Are you using iOS7 on both the 4 & 5?

GamePizza

iOS 6.0.1 on iPhone 5. After much trial and error, I think I found a work around. I put the text on a transparent background and imported these images as .png. This seems to solve most of the issues. A few cases, I went further and set collision shape to Circle and Movable to false. These changes resolved all the problems for me so far. Hopefully, no other issues show up, especially on release.

gyroscope

Yes, putting the type on transparent backs would do it for sure; really glad it's solved for you but still intrigued to know what caused the problem - just on the iPhone5 - in the first place… maybe we'll never know…. (possibly a glitch to do with iOS7 maybe…)