Hazen Babcock writes: > This reminds me that many graphics drivers these days support a color > alpha (or translucency value) as well the standard red, green and > blue. Any thoughts on extending PLplot to support this? It could be > as simple as adding a alpha value to the PLStream data structure, > which the user could set with say "plsalpha", and which would be used > or ignored by the graphics driver as appropriate.
I've been interested in translucency for awhile now, but completely unable to find time to look into it. I'd avoid a "plsalpha" for the same reason that I deprecated plrgb() -- it's a whole lot nicer to set up a set of standard colors and calls to manipulate them. So I would prefer that if we were to support translucency in the core, every color have a translucency attribute (defaulting to none, i.e. the way it is now). Of course we'd need a bunch of new API calls for setting color values, maybe take the existing ones and add on a "x" (for extended), that allowed the user to specify RGB + translucency. Any other attributes needed? -- Maurice LeBrun ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
