On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Andreas Beck wrote:
> > Does ggiGetBox provide clipping?
>
> It does not, because the results are uninterpretable anyway.
>
> If we clip at coordinate level, the returned buffer has a wrong geometry.
>
> If we clip at pixel level and fill the out-of-clip pixels with some value -
> what value should we pick ?
>
> Whatever you do, the result lies in some way (which may be acceptable for
> some applications like when just storing away background for an emusprite.)
>
> I'd opt for documenting it, as the _fast_ way to fix it (clipping at
> coordinate level) gives unexpected results and the better way (putting
> in some strange value in the o-o-c pixels) still lies and is slow.
If I got you right, then libBSE should clip the emusprites, no?
CU,
Christoph Egger
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