[UI] FillStyles in borders

[Igor Stasenko]

2008/6/27 Gary Chambers <gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com>:
> Except when the border and interior overlap... (which can be desired, modern "Mac style" default focus indications, as an example).
> Again, for that, a decoration would be best (not a border in the strictest sense).
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> As for clipping, the lack of low-level support for arbitrary shape clipping in Balloon is a problem and stencil-based clipping might be computationally expensive in BitBlt.

Stencil-based clipping has its own drawbacks: its very hard to draw
shapes antialiased once you clip area on per-pixel basis.
I think, better would be to keep with shapes, and make engine which
can have a notion of current clipping shape.

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> Gary.
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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.