This is a bit brain-dead on my part, and I will figure it out
eventually, but I thought I'd throw it out to the list in hopes of a
quick solution ;)
I'm copying a dupe of the image of a text member into a dupe of the
image of a png member. Given the fact that both carry alpha images, the
result is not surprising - the copypixels op pastes the text in, but
also cuts a rect the size of the text image out of the background image
(as in, the alpha is getting copied to, as well as the image). I can
think of three ways around this - one, extract the alpha from the
destination image up front, copy, and put the alpha back; two, make an
interim image that has no alpha, copy the text to that, and then paste
the sucker into the final image; three, use the text member's alpha as
the image to copy from.
Specifically, I'm looping through the data from an xml doc, and
building cascading menus from it (drop each menu item into a text
member, grab the image, copy away, store the dest rect and relevant
info for mousing stuff). Since the menu panels overlay the other stuff
on screen, I thought it would look nice to have a drop shadow beneath
the panels. And it does... except now there are nice big holes around
the menu text.
Anyway, I guess I'm just asking if somebody knows which of the above 3
approaches is more expedient, or if there is another way. I'll go ahead
and try them out, but I'm sure somebody has trod this path already -
James? ;)
tia,
Kurt
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- Re: <lingo-l> Copypixels from one "alpha-ed... Kurt Griffin
- Re: <lingo-l> Copypixels from one "alp... James Newton
- Re: <lingo-l> Copypixels from one "alp... pranavn
- Re: <lingo-l> Copypixels from one "alp... Kurt Griffin
- Re: <lingo-l> Copypixels from one "alp... John Aquilina (JMW)
- RE: <lingo-l> Copypixels from one "alp... Todd Culley
- <lingo-l> Copypixels from one "alpha-e... Todd Culley
- RE: <lingo-l> Copypixels from one "alp... Eric Frericks