[UI] FillStyles in borders

[Gary Chambers]

I agree. In which case Balloon won't cut-the-mustard...

Regards, Gary.

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> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Igor Stasenko
> Sent: 27 June 2008 4:08 PM
> To: Squeak's User Interface
> Subject: Re: [UI] FillStyles in borders
> 
> 
> 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).
> >
> > 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.
> 
> >
> > Gary.
> >
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
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