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From: clay@claris.com (Clay A. Maeckel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: 32-bit QD bugs in system 7.0b4
Message-ID: <12038@claris.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 02:09:24 GMT
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Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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thomas@duteca (Thomas Okken) writes:
>DrawPicture to a 16- or 32-bit offscreen pixmap doesn't work properly; the
>r, g and b components seem to be shifted left within the pixel, and the
>blue component is set to $FF (in case of 32-bit pixmaps; similar things go
>wrong with 16-bit pixmaps).

I have heard of this problem just recently. It seems that people using
DeskPicture on System 7 machines with 32-bit deep screens are getting "blue"
pictures on their desktops. I've just starting tracking this down and hopefully
it can be fixed before the "final" final submit, but I'm afraid it may be
already too late.

--Clay
(author of DeskPicture)
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