Hi there, On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 22:31 +0100, Astron wrote:
Michael, thanks a lot for your investigation work. I've tried manipulating the handles.png file, and indeed it works. Not as expected, though:
Great :-)
1. alpha transparency doesn't work (admittedly, kind of expected that after seeing the 3D rotation handles that have black backgrounds in-program)
Ok - I've pushed a fix to master that nails that; we can now have
proper > 1 bit transparency in there: hopefully that'll let us make the
handles look rather prettier as a first pass. Prolly we want to split
them up to make them a uniform size too but ...
I attach a picture of a handle with an alpha hole in it, and an anchor
with an alpha-fish drawn on it, as you can see - my artistic skills
are ... ;-)
2. there's something really weird: LibO resizes the large, 9px*9px handles to 8px*8px – also true for the other images: all are displayed at (n-1)px*(n-1)px
That is very odd; I took a quick look, but can't see that in the code -
it would be pretty hideous if we were scaling those guys - and I'd
imagine it would make them look -much- worse than your shot if we were -
the interpolation would be horribly slow and the result even uglier. Are
you sure it's not just the next-size-down rectangle ?
Then, as probably everyone can see, LibO has far too many differently coloured handles (six colours, srsly?) – unless someone knows where the rest of these are ever used. It would be helpful to see which are in use and which aren't, so the appropriate ones can be skinned.
Heh ;-) I'd like to reduce the number of sizes too - quite why we have
so many I don't know; but that'll need more code cleanup. Either way,
hopefully this opens the door for making them a lot prettier.
All the best,
Michael.
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