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From: stuart@previous.ADS.COM (Stuart Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Alpha values and the Draw App... HELP!
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Date: 12 Sep 90 00:31:16 GMT
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I'm trying to do a quick and dirty modification of the Draw application for a
client demo.  The drawings I'm using are eps maps saved as .draw files.  I have
some TIFF icons that I want to place on these maps by simply dragging them from
the Workspace. The problem is that Draw, as it currently stands, does *not*
make use of any alpha information in these TIFF files.  These icons have a
white rectangular background that (when viewed by the Icon application) is
transparent.  However the background is opaque when pasted in to the Draw
document.

I've tried to modify Tiff.m by setting drawWithAlpha = YES, but this has no
effect.  

What can I do to force Draw to make use of alpha levels?

Thanks very much,

Ctuart
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