Re: A86: 3-color icons?


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Re: A86: 3-color icons?



On Fri, 5 Sep 1997 Steve86Asm@aol.com wrote:

> Well, however many buffers there are (2 is reasonable...) there should be a
> way to specify in the actual icon whether to use 1 or 2 buffers...  (You
> could actually or it with the size byte (i.e. 1-2 bits for size (%00=8x8,
> %01=8x16, %10=16x8, %11=16x16) and then a bit for greyscale...)

This doesn't make sense, though.  Since it takes up just as much room to
store a 2-color icon with transparency as it does to store a 3-color icon
with transparency, why not let the program decide how it will display the
icon?

This brings up a question: how useful is icon transparency?  Would you
rather have 3-color icons with transparency or 4-color icons without?
(The correct answer is both, but make a choice for the sake of argument.)


> 
> Is there a second video buffer?
> 

No. It would be included in the asmprgm, enlarging it by 1KB.  That's why
having more than 4 colors (more than 1 extra buffer) is not such an 
attractive idea.

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Dan Eble (mailto:eble@cis.ohio-state.edu)
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