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From: deadman@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ben Haller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: A couple of color questions...
Message-ID: <1991May4.222227.9364@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 4 May 91 22:22:27 GMT
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In article <1991May01.014734.25231@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> boerned@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Dan Boerner) writes:
>Question #1, Highlighting color icons
>Turned out this one was easy, just use Copybits with the blend mode and
>set OpColor to rgb gray.  Works great in color, but not in b&w so I'll have
>to special case that. I'd actually tried this before but forgot to set the
>OpColor.

  Actually, this works fine, but it *isn't* the method used by the Finder.
The Finder only dims colors that are in the Apple Standard 34 Colors.  Who
thought of this originally should probably be shot.  Whoever thought of the
"Standard 34 Colors" in the first place should probably be shot.  But
that's how it works.  The question is, has Apple issued a definite
statement that this is how it will *continue* to work, or can we expect the
Finder's algorithm for displaying icons to change again, as it has in every
major release since version 1.0 (with perhaps an exception or two, but
essentially this is true)?
  I'd love to know who thinks up ideas like this.

-Ben Haller (deadman@garnet.berkeley.edu)
"I remember the feeling / My hands in your hair..." - King Crimson