9fans - fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] alpha channel
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:10:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0812271510o5da36b71qfcee9b53c0b64c92@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dac0a5820812241228q9a8c72eif690e874e5744179@mail.gmail.com>

> this is regarding alpha channel.
> i am able to change the alpha value for an image by setting new alpha value
> for every pixel.
> but i was thinking we also could set the alpha value for all of the pixels
> in a window/screen just but setting the value somewhere, say using ctl. is
> this not possible in plan9 or inferno? i am wondering how i got that

the graphics operators support alpha blending
but the window system still assumes, at a deep level,
that windows are opaque rectangles.

russ


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-27 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-24 20:28 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2008-12-27 23:10 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2008-12-28 11:56   ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=dd6fe68a0812271510o5da36b71qfcee9b53c0b64c92@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=rsc@swtch.com \
    --cc=9fans@9fans.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).