32-bit BMP problems.

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Wed Mar 20 16:40:25 UTC 2002


Yisrael Lowenstein wrote:
> 
> A strange observation...
> After many hours of experimentation, I found that it *will* give me color
> values if the display is in 16-bit color mode...very strange...anyone have
> a good explination for that?

No, but I think BMP dump it's alpha channel, and when read back into Squeak
the alpha channel will be all zero and thus transparent.
A better way to handle this would be for Squeak to set the image depth
to 
16 bits and not fake a alpha channel that will confuse most people.

Karl



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