On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:45:02PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:12:18PM +0200, Remko Troncon wrote:
> > There seems to be a problem in the drawing of menus. The problem is as
> > follows:
> > I have a grey/white DGradient as a background of my menus. When i use
> > FreeType
> > fonts as my menu font, the gradient doesnt show at all, i only get a
> > plain grey background.
> > I tried to trace the problem, and stumbled upon some code in menuitem.c.
> > In menuitem_paint(), there is a piece of code
> > ...
> > else if ( xft_redraw || ... ) {
> > ...
> > XClearArea(...)
> > }
> > When i comment the XClearArea (or the xft_redraw condition), the
> > gradient does show. I've never programmed with Xlibs before, so i don't
> > really know how the XClearArea works, so maybe someone can help me find
> > out what could be going wrong ?
>
> The XClearArea() call erases the foreground of the window so that
> the window backgorund shines through. The reason why this doesn't
> work with b and d gradients is that they are drawn on the window
> *foreground* (unlike all other types of gradients). That happens
> only with the
>
> MenuFace B/DGradient ...
>
> options. If you instead define a colorset with the gradient and
> then set
>
> MenuFace Colorset ...
>
> it works as expected.
>
> Olivier: I guess you added that XClearArea() call. Do you know
> of any other places in the menu code where you added similar
> calls? We should continue to support direct gradient drawing
> since they look a lot better this way (less blocky).
Or maybe we should not? All the Xft, tinting and alpha rendering
stuff is going to become very complex, just because of these two
gradient types.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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