Re: setting Gtk2::Gdk::Color pixel

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Nov 16, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Kevin Ryde wrote:

> Ie. for xors or other crazy GCFunction operations I think the GdkColor
> is not a colour, just a way to pass a pixel value with the bits you  
> want
> to flip or set or whatever.
>
> (I imagine apart from xors most such things are only really useful  
> for a
> pseudocolor where you've setup particular colours in particular pixels
> of the colormap.  Maybe on a truecolor you could OR in some extra  
> red on
> top of other drawing, or something like that though.)

XOR is useful for reversible drawing.  I swear, the white+xor trick  
works.  I just wrote the attached script, and used it to create the  
attached screenshot.  Load your favorite picture (watch out -- scaling  
and scrolling are left as an exercise for you) and drag button 1 around.

Back in the olden days, fancy alpha compositing and such was simply  
too expensive for interactive operations like rubber-band selection.   
XOR allowed you to make a reversible change to the target very  
cheaply.  Doing and XOR bitwise operation on a 24-bit color value  
flips all the bits and typically gives you the opposite RGB color.   
This is nice because you can see what you're doing... mostly.  Doesn't  
work so great on grays.

Attachment: xor.pl
Description: Text Data

(For those who are curious, yes, those are my kids.  The picture is  
from around Halloween in '06.)

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