XOR Line drawing
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 5:55 am
Hi All,
I have a question for any Java Swing experts out there, regarding line drawing. There are a few places in Maptool where where the UI draws some additional guiding lines in black, such as when you draw rectangles on a map or reveal fog. These are very helpful, but of course, vanish entirely when the background is black. This is particular obvious when you are revealing fog, where the background is almost always black
So it occurred to me that this should be easily solved by using the XOR drawing mode, right? Except that the results are almost always awful. I tried specifying different XOR colours to see what effect it produced, but using anything other than black and white just seemed to make things worse
What I would really like to see is drawn lines that are either black or white (or possibly grey) but nothing else. Is there a way to limit the drawing palette in this way? Without effect the rest of the interface?
cheers
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I have a question for any Java Swing experts out there, regarding line drawing. There are a few places in Maptool where where the UI draws some additional guiding lines in black, such as when you draw rectangles on a map or reveal fog. These are very helpful, but of course, vanish entirely when the background is black. This is particular obvious when you are revealing fog, where the background is almost always black
So it occurred to me that this should be easily solved by using the XOR drawing mode, right? Except that the results are almost always awful. I tried specifying different XOR colours to see what effect it produced, but using anything other than black and white just seemed to make things worse
What I would really like to see is drawn lines that are either black or white (or possibly grey) but nothing else. Is there a way to limit the drawing palette in this way? Without effect the rest of the interface?
cheers
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