> > Yes. The idea is to be able to easily support different color schemes
> > and such lateron. The alpha is basically used as a padding value for now.
> Ok but the problem is that the alpha value isn't really a color information.
Yes. However it is often closely related to an idividual pixel, quite like
the color is.
> So it might not be a good idea to define it in the ggi_color struct, bound to
> the rgb color scheme. If we use the CMYK color scheme, how do we have the
> alpha channel? There would be a loss of genericity for extensions that
> would make use of the alpha information regardless of the actual color
> scheme.
> So is it really a proper way to use alpha channel?
No really. But I'd like to leave it in place for the padding effect it has.
CU, ANdy
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