06-14-2023, 01:24 AM
Help!
For all coders like me that are too old to abandon the old Qbasic Keywords vs new QB63pe keywords, it should be a warning AI in the parser!
run this code and you can experimenting what I'm saying.
well, if you watch at the output... you see that all that is a screen 0 output (PRINT in this case) has been _putimaged on the application screen without no alpha effect!
At a first time it has been clear to my old mind! Why the part of S2 that brings PRINT output is not under the effect of _setalpha?
Yes PRINT is a keyword of SCREEN 0, but I believe that _setalpha should work on the whole S2 and not only to the part that brings a graphic effect.
In other words I should get this result if I make output directly to the main screen, while if I copy a screen that has a not full grade of trasparency (alpha < 256) I should get that the whole image shows the trasparency effect.
In this case it seems that copying the output of a SCREEN 0 let it at screen 0 level!
Like I cannot use screen function with graphic text (using Fonts).
For all coders like me that are too old to abandon the old Qbasic Keywords vs new QB63pe keywords, it should be a warning AI in the parser!
run this code and you can experimenting what I'm saying.
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Dim Shared S1 As Long, S2 As Long
S1 = _NewImage(1200, 900, 32)
S2 = _NewImage(1200, 300, 32)
_SetAlpha 100, 0, S2
Screen S1
Paint (1, 1), _RGBA32(0, 100, 100, 256)
_Delay 1
_Dest S2
Print "If you see color back to this text all is ok"
_PutImage (1, 600), S2, S1At a first time it has been clear to my old mind! Why the part of S2 that brings PRINT output is not under the effect of _setalpha?
Yes PRINT is a keyword of SCREEN 0, but I believe that _setalpha should work on the whole S2 and not only to the part that brings a graphic effect.
In other words I should get this result if I make output directly to the main screen, while if I copy a screen that has a not full grade of trasparency (alpha < 256) I should get that the whole image shows the trasparency effect.
In this case it seems that copying the output of a SCREEN 0 let it at screen 0 level!
Like I cannot use screen function with graphic text (using Fonts).