XImage Transparency
Juliusz Chroboczek
Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr
Thu Jul 26 15:21:18 PDT 2007
>> How can you make part of an XImage transparent (true transparency - as
>> in I can see something under the transparent parts) ?
> You can't.
> If you want to plot a "masked" image, you need a separate mask bitmap,
> where 1 represents opaque and 0 represents transparent.
>
> First, the mask needs to exist as a 1-bit Pixmap. You can then set
> this as the clip mask using XSetClipMask() and XSetClipOrigin(). When
> you draw the image (XPutImage), it will be masked against the clip
> mask.
And watch your X server collapse.
If you use XSetClipMask, the bitmap will be converted to a set of
spans, which will kill performance.
Instead, you should be using the Render extension together with RGBA
images.
Juliusz
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