FreeLists / haiku-appserver / [haiku-appserver] Re: BView::ClipToPicture

[Stefano Ceccherini <burton666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Anyway, we shouldn't disable antialiasing - the quality >difference is 
>noticeable, and not a good one, either.  As much as a 

Yes, I agree completely, at least in that case. Though I think it would be 
useful to disable antialiasing in some cases (not on this particular, though, 
as it looks as it's not disabled in beos version).

>temporary memory 
>hog as it could be, the only thing I can think of which would >work well 
>is to use a 32-bit bitmap and memset it to 0, thus rendering >the entire 
>thing effectively transparent. Draw the picture into the >thing and 
>check the alpha byte for each pixel and we can figure out the >clipping 
>region from there. Thoughts?

Actually, you're right, and I think we HAVE to do something like that. As, I 
just discovered, I found a problem in my implementation: Try (in the BPicture) 
to set the drawing color to white, and draw a rect. The rect won't be added to 
the clipping region, as it's the background color.

Some things that Marc Flerackers suggested are: 
Either using the Play() function of BPicture and pass a custom  callback table, 
to make it draw only to black, and/or on a custom surface, or directly to a 
BBitmap (in some way), or (but can be done only at server side, probably) have 
a custom DisplayDriver, used only for ClipToPicture, which does the work for us.



Stefano Ceccherini aka Jack Burton
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