Bob Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> At 1:17 AM +0100 12-04-00, Richard Hartman wrote:
> >I am not completely familiar w/ the new color capabilities: is it
possible
> >to
> >define a "transparent" color with the new bitmaps?
>
> Bingo.
>
> XOR won't work with 'colors' other than black or white, because the bit
> patters of their indexes are not all 0's or all 1's.
>
> Transparency support is well documented. But it's not particularly fast.
>
Remember, he was using XOR both for pseudo-transparency -and- to erase.
Real transparency will take care of the first, but only saving the original
bits to restore later will take care of the second.
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-Richard M. Hartman
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