Re: [Plplot-devel] Uniformly coloured semitransparent backgrounds

2016-02-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-02-08 10:44- Phil Rosenberg wrote: > The wxWidgets drivers certainly does as you say - it's response to > plclear is to simply draw a rectangle of the appropriate colour. If > that colour was transparent then I think we end up drawing over some > default window background which I think

Re: [Plplot-devel] Uniformly coloured semitransparent backgrounds

2016-02-08 Thread Phil Rosenberg
> I do agree that just as with the IM display GUI, there would be > external factors (such as bad compositing for your desktop display) > that might or might not allow this to work, but sometimes it does work > (i.e., the user can get a cool effect where they create an interactive > plot on a semit

Re: [Plplot-devel] Uniformly coloured semitransparent backgrounds

2016-02-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-02-07 13:25- Phil Rosenberg wrote: > There is plenty of cool stuff there, but remembering that plplot is a library and not an application our job should be to enable transparency and allow the user to do that cool stuff - but that might form the basis of a demo. Agreed. > For file ou

Re: [Plplot-devel] Uniformly coloured semitransparent backgrounds

2016-02-07 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Hi Alan There is plenty of cool stuff there, but remembering that plplot is a library and not an application our job should be to enable transparency and allow the user to do that cool stuff - but that might form the basis of a demo. Here is my opinion: For file output, it should just be like a

[Plplot-devel] Uniformly coloured semitransparent backgrounds

2016-02-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Phil: Part of the overall goal of getting RGBA background images to work is to get the "A" (alpha channel) component of that to work properly, and so a preliminary goal should be to implement uniformly colored semitransparent backgrounds correctly. Some current semitransparent background issu