Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!eric
From: eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Transparent / opaque icon backgrounds
Keywords: icons
Message-ID: <5214@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 14:51:54 GMT
References: <4989@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Reply-To: eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton)
Distribution: na
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <4989@garfield.MUN.EDU> john13@garfield.MUN.EDU (John Russell) writes:
>Some icons I see require you to click on one of the non-background colours
>in order for the click to be registered. Others accept a mouse press anywhere
>in the rectangle they define, and when dragged their "background" colour
>obscures the screen underneath.
>
>What's different with these two sets of icons? Is it just a flag, something
>in the planepick, or something different in the image data itself?

Those icons saved by IconEd with HiLite = Inverse accept a mouse press
anywhere in the rectangle, those saved with HiLite = Backfill do not
(HiLite is one of IconEd's menus).
-- 
Eric Cotton
Commodore-Amiga                                               (215) 431-9100
1200 Wilson Drive                              {rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!eric
West Chester, PA 19380            "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore."