Re: Newbie tries again

[Adam Fedor]

Wim Oudshoorn wrote:
> 
> I noticed that at my screen, 16bits colordepth, it looked awfull.
> The source of the problem was in XGBitmap.m.
> I have modified this file so that it works on my screen
> (and fixed some bugs in other screendepths and orderings as well)
> 
> So my question.  Is this already solved in the newer cvs versions?
> If not, is anybody interested in the fix?  If somebody is,
> please speak up!
> 

Sure we're interested! Please send it.

> Second question.
> 
> While digging through the source in order to fix it I noticed
> that the NSButtonCell class does things differently than
> the Openstep implementation.  As far as I can tell the Openstep
> application draws a white semi-transparent layer over an active button.
> While the GNUStep implementation draws a light background.
> Was this done because transparancy did not work?
> Or are there other reasons that it is done the way it is done now?
> 

Well, alpha transparency is really just hacked in now (only for images),
so that's probably why. It doesn't even work properly with the (free)
DPS implementations.

> By the way, I am willing to spent time on GNUstep, but I do not
> have large continues chunks of free time.  So I would prefer to
> do some minor bugfixes or help on a project.
> 

Great. Fix whatever you like, or look at the todo list:

http://www.gnustep.org/developers/tasks.html