> > ...But the rest of us need a more common English reference
>> and a bit of explanation.
>>
>> Where does one draw the line?
>
>With the destroyStack property. ;)
>...
>C++ programmers understand "destroy" and lay people don't, but everyone
>understands "purge" -- why not "purgeStack" and "purgeWindow" properties?
Highly agreed. This isn't the xTalk list, but this still is of
pretty big importance... I never have used the destroyStack command
(maybe because it sounded too scary, aside from the fact that I
probably didn't have a use for it) , but it always sounded a little
scary to me. Purge sounds much, much better... can we at least get
this used an a synonym in future releases?
> > Where does one draw the line? I vote for syntax in common terminology
> > which the majority of people can understand. Avoidance of technical
>> jargon is important in an xtalk language. "Blend" is technical jargon
> > apparently familiar to graphic designers.
>
>But is "blend" really so technical? I want to "blend" this image with
>whatever is behind it. This doesn't sound like technical jargon to me.
>
>I think you have a stronger case against: srcCopy, notSrcAnd, noop,
>notSrcXor, etc etc.
Agreed as well. Can we simply have adjectives from now on? I
think MC need more workers so Scott can implement all this ;-)
> > "Transparency" (or even
>> "opacity") is self-explanatory to anyone. The same jargon occurs with
>> "alphaData" -- undoubtedly familiar to graphics programmers, but not so
>> familiar to us.
>
>I agree, but I think you might concur that alphaData is more approachable
>than the above terms.
This may just be a naive guess of mine, but I'm guessing most people
using these properties will already be familiar with things like
alpha masks from various image-editing apps. If you're using a
pretty-high level property like this, you're probably also familiar
with graphics programs in general.
>Would you be willing to post a short description of each type of ink and
>how it behaves? I would love to have the information and I am sure many
>others would too.
This would be darn useful, but alas, I'm sure the only person who
knows this is the first bad guy who infiltrated some scripting
language's programming staff and tried to change the english-sounding
language to straight, abbreviation-filled code! ;-)
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