Re: A86: 3-color icons?


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Re: A86: 3-color icons?



On Mon, 8 Sep 1997 Steve86Asm@aol.com wrote:

> What's the point of transparency, anyway?  Are you planning on putting icons
> on top of other icons/pictures?  Or moving them with a windows/style
> interface?  I doubt that that is feasible.  But, if there is a good use for
> transparency, I don't see why not to use it.

It would be useful for many games and graphical interfaces to be able to
detect collisions between sprites/icons.  Having a transparency mask would
be good for that.

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Dan Eble (mailto:eble@cis.ohio-state.edu)
         (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~eble)


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