[Squeakfoundation]3.4 release
John M McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Thu Feb 6 20:54:23 CET 2003
Ok, good, lets regress the change to the mpeg source, it adds a bit of
complexity to the mpeg
code that's not really needed. So I'll attempt to back out the changes
tomorrow if I figure out how to
do that (pointers are welcome).
On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 03:31 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
> John,
>
>> Well I'm afraid this change set was forgotten when we were building
>> 3.4. Mostly I was looking for feedback from the Croquet folks if
>> this actually works for them as intended.
>
> Just to reconfirm: This change was the one which made the alpha values
> appear correctly, right?! If so, we've actually solved this problem
> differently in the meantime because the MPEG player wasn't the only
> place
> where the alpha channel was killed - it turns out that this happens
> regularly when you blt 16bpp -> 32 bpp and considering both overdraw
> issues
> and the generally higher requirements in terms of computing power in
> Croquet
> I decided that it's worthwhile to add an extra pass where it is needed
> (done
> by BitBlt's new fixAlpha:with: rule). In other words, if it's
> expensive, it
> is not necessary to keep it in the MPEG plugin for the sole sake of
> Croquet.
> We could simply #ifdef it with an appropriate comment saying what this
> is
> doing and what is needed if you want to use it.
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
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