Re: [AD] set_clip and set_clip_rect

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris wrote:

> I can't seem to find any messages in my inbox explaining this, so 
> perhaps someone here can enlighten me.
>
> What was the purpose of creating set_clip_rect and deprecating 
> set_clip?  Though both take exactly the same arguments, and as far as 
> I can see, do exactly the same thing (set the main clip rectangle).


set_clip() was replaced by two functions (set_clip_rect & 
set_clip_state) which were considered more orthogonal.  set_clip() 
treated the case of 0,0,0,0 specially, which lead to subtle bugs.

Peter