john13@garfield.MUN.EDU (John Russell) (11/09/88)
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? John -- In the Globe and Mail a few days ago, there was an ad for "dehydrated water", complete with a price and an address to order it.
steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) (11/10/88)
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? > >John The difference you are seeing is related to the highlighting methods used by the respective icons. The icon editor allows you to specify backfill or complemented highlighting. Backfill only affects the icon in areas where it contains non-background information. Complement just inverses the whole "select box" of that icon. For reasons that escape me, it was decided that the same information would be used for determining the "active" areas of an icon too. Steve
eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton) (11/10/88)
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."