RE : INS, caret colour, etc.

From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (e98cuenc@free.fr)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 16:53:11 EST

  • Next message: Dom Lachowicz: "Re: RE : INS, caret colour, etc."

    The reasons that I got when I asked were that MacOS didn't had a xor
    primitive. Hub said, however, that it can be easily implementable
    anyway.

    Plam gave me another reason, but I'm afraid I don't remember it (and I
    think that I didn't understand it).

    Cheers,

    Tomas wrote:
    >
    > OK, I am going to look into making the caret to change colour in
    > OVR mode (the colour could be customisable one day). If we want
    > to change the width as well to make it look like a block, this would
    > really need to be in a fixed ratio to the caret height, for
    > if we adjust
    > the width based on character width then in the case of narrow
    > characters the caret will be indistinguishable from the INS caret.
    >
    > There is an additional problem that is linked to this; the new caret
    > code is hardwired to draw black caret; the previous code used the
    > xor functions which made it better at coping with dark colour
    > backgrounds, and I would prefer to go back to that -- if there was a
    > particular reason why the xor functions were not used, could your
    > please let me know, before I mess things up?
    >
    > Tomas
    >
    >



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