[Splashy-devel] Translucent Text Area Patch.

[Luis M]

On 3/27/06, Pat Suwalski <pats at xandros.com> wrote:
> Luis M wrote:
> > I was able to add the scrolling functionality to Splashy. Now we only
> > need a way to let the offscreen surfaced to be cleared properly (right
> > now it keeps drawing on top of itself blending the colors -- only
> > visible if you use a number in alpha less than 255 (like 127 or less)
> > in your theme).
>
> Woah! You're misusing the method!
>
> Text is to be drawn only on the primary (sub)surface. The off-screen
> surface is *never* touched. That's why it is used to redraw the primary.
> That way it clears properly.
>
> Anyway, it works here.

Well, I got it to work. It's definitely not the right way to do it.
I'll try using the sub-surface as you suggest here.

I'm running into other problems with reading from the console (the
console to which messages are being written to. I'll shoot a separate
thread for that...)

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