Klaus wrote:
Bug #3158:
borderColor property has no affect for images, yet setting the borderColor of a
card containing an image results in colored image border
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3158>
Yep, found it and added a comment.
That limitation does not make any sense :-)
I believe Raney once told me that some object properties were compactly
expressed in the internal object record as specific bits within a byte
or word, which was great for saving space but made it difficult to later
add new properties without changing the file format.
Also, some types of objects use specific bits for one purpose while
another object type will use those same bits for a different property.
Given the scope of properties for images, I'd guess that what happened
here is that Raney needed the border bit for some other image property
and he probably thought, "Why would anyone need to set the border of an
image anyway?"
This is just a hunch, but if it's true and the current file format
doesn' allow internal properties to be added more easily, don't be
surprised if this seemingly-simple fix has to wait until the next file
format change.
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