[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Betr: Re: (PR#7123) Metaissue for FS

["Jason Short" <jshort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Raimar Falke wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7123 >
> 
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 05:58:11AM -0800, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
>>>Regarding overlays of text over complex drawn backgrounds: always add an
>>>outline around the text. The outline should always be black unless the
>>>text is black or very dark, in that case the outline should be white.
>>>
>>>The reason should be obvious:
>>>http://webreference.com/graphics/column20/art/psout.gif
>>
>>Also added to my todo-list.
> 
> 
> A difficult topic. The poor-man version (I call this the
> halo-method) looks like this:
> 
>       for (d = 0; d < 8; d++) {
>       struct ct_point p2 = p;
> 
>       p2.x += DIR_DX[d];
>       p2.y += DIR_DY[d];
>       be_draw_bitmap(target, 0, black, &p2, 
>                        string->data->glyphs[i].bitmap);
>       }
>       be_draw_bitmap(target, 0, string->foreground, &p,
>                    string->data->glyphs[i].bitmap);
> 
> You first draw 8 different versions of the bitmap in black and then
> the final one in the real color.

And what if the font is anti-aliased?

jason