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From: anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: hilite color
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.014247.7709@verity.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 01:42:47 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.200302.424@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In-Reply-To: rolf@sparc1.isgs.uiuc.edu (Rolf Wilson)

In article <1991Feb11.200302.424@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, rolf@sparc1 (Rolf Wilson) writes:
>  Question 1: How do you hilite something in the user-selected
>     hilite color? I don't mean text. InvertRect always?
>     uses black.
>  Question 2: Is there a way of doing the above while still
>     using the "old" color model?
>--


In pascal, call:

	BitClr(Ptr(HiliteMode, pHiliteBit));

before calls to InvertRect, InvertRgn, etc.  This is compatible with
all versions of QuickDraw and doesn't what the bit-depth of the
monitor is.  This is documented in the Color QuickDraw chapter in IM
V, I think.