Re: [AD] textmode ideas

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Subject: Re: [AD] textmode ideas
From: Laurence Withers <lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:18:31 +0000

In reply to Doug Eleveld <deleveld@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>As far as the text output routines, I use in my Depui project a
>foreground and background color in the text draw function and draw
>text without background when fore == back.  This way you get both 
>functionalities without using any confusing 'mode'.  Maybe you can
>consider this when looking to improve Allegro's API.

This sounds sensible, and solves the AllegroGL problem. I don't think we
can implement this in the current API, though; we would still have to
interpret -ve values as transparent.

Bye for now,
-- 
Laurence Withers, lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx
                http://www.lwithers.demon.co.uk/

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