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- From: paul@vault.WUstl.EDU (Terrance Paul McCartney)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Drawing color shapes on a monochrome monitor
- Message-ID: <9207291705.AA07425@vault.WUstl.EDU>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 17:05:32 GMT
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- I've run into a strange problem with color. My program draws things of a
- non-rectangular shape to a yellow background. I also need to erase those
- things without disturbing the rest of the drawing (i.e. the thing to erase
- is wrapped around something else which I don't want to erase).
-
- For the above reason, I did not use erase-rect since it would erase too much.
- I simply draw over the shape with the background color (yellow). This works
- fine on a color monitor. When I run it on a monochrome monitor, the parts
- that I erased show up as black, even though the background (yellow) shows
- up as white.
-
- It seems pretty screwed up that if you draw something with the background
- color, it shows up as a non-background color. Similar effects can be seen
- in grayscale modes. Is this another bizarre feature of the mac, or is there
- some fix to this?
-
- - Paul
-