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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