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From: kvj@rhi.hi.is (Kristjan Valur Jonsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn,eunet.micro.acorn
Subject: Re: !PlaceIt, a sticky backdrop...
Message-ID: <2643@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 19 Jan 91 14:57:30 GMT
References: <1991Jan17.125623.7474@vax1.tcd.ie>
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In <1991Jan17.125623.7474@vax1.tcd.ie> hughesmp@vax1.tcd.ie writes:

>I think those are the main problems I found with it, but ... when (if?) you put
>a background sprite on it, would there be any chance of having masked text ...
>as in, you can see the background in the gaps in letters. Another thing that
>annoys me about !StickyBd is the way it redraws the grey when you move a window
>before putting in the sprite. You might like to look at bypassing this, so it
>actually fills in the background with the sprite only, although this may not be
>too easy without re-writing the Desktop(?).

Another point:
   Perhaps it would be a good idea to allow the background to be tiled with a 
smaller sprite, a la Windows 3.00, thus saving memory.
  
>Merlin Hughes.
>(a member of SICK)

Kristjan Valur Jonsson