[squeak-dev] Q: Why are TTCFont Glyphs forms of depth 32?

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Jul 25 04:22:53 UTC 2008


Am 25.07.2008 um 00:16 schrieb Jerome Peace:

> Hi all,
>
>
> Q: Why are TTCFont Glyphs forms of depth 32?
>
>
> As a bug tracker I've been looking into a whole slew of font code.
> It is  sprawling and confusing (to me).
> I can't easily figure if what I am looking at is legit or not.
>
> So first an easy queastion.
> Can anybody help with an answer?


A 32 bpp form is TSTTCPW if you want an alpha channel. An 8 bpp form  
would suffice, but require more exotic bitblt rules to be interpreted  
as an alpha channel.

- Bert -





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