[squeak-dev] Soft Drop Shadows and display depth and menu issues

karl ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 07:38:03 UTC 2022


On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 at 18:27, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

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> > On 2022-07-11, at 11:00 PM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Also on Windows, the menu show that you can use both big endian and
> little endian bit depth. I’m not sure why both choices are displayed?
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> It was something to do with handling external bitmaps (for host windows?)
> that used big-endian; which is/was a Windows thing. Also at some point IIRC
> there was a bizarre 'middle-endian' format used by Windows; because of
> course there was.
>

Ah, that explains it.

Middle endian sounds “fun” :-D

Best,
Karl



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