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