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Re: Mac 32 bit color depth? [message #24291 is a reply to message #24241]

Fri, 23 March 2001 17:55

William Daffer
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"Joseph B. Gurman" <gurman@ari.net> writes:

> In article <thierry-2203011142210001@dualpants.dev.rsinc.com>,
> thierry@NOSPAM.rsinc.com (Thierry Faucounau) wrote:
>
> [snip]
>>
>> I am not averse to returning the "usable" (from an IDL standpoint) visual
>> depth from get_visual_depth which would be 24 (essentially ignoring the
>> fact that on the Mac, all "true color" buffers are in fact 32bits) for
>> the sake of portability.
>>
>> --
>> Thierry Faucounau
>> Research Systems, Inc.
>
> [snip]
>
> Thierry, that sounds very reasonable --- but it would be great to be
> able to access the transparency channel: I would love to be able to
> create movies (e.g. with XINTERANIMATE) in IDL that include transparency
> effects.
>
> Any chance?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe Gurman

And wouldn't it make the creation of .png files a little easier?
Don't they support a native RGBA?

whd
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		Mac 32 bit color depth? By: Wayne Landsman on Tue, 20 March 2001 10:55
		Re: Mac 32 bit color depth? By: davidf on Sat, 24 March 2001 10:57
		Re: Mac 32 bit color depth? By: Randall Frank on Sat, 24 March 2001 09:55
		Re: Mac 32 bit color depth? By: William Daffer on Fri, 23 March 2001 17:55
		Re: Mac 32 bit color depth? By: btt on Tue, 20 March 2001 11:52
		Re: Mac 32 bit color depth? By: Joseph B. Gurman on Thu, 22 March 2001 16:05

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