CLIM 2 Specification — 13 Drawing in Color

13 Drawing in Color

This chapter describes the :ink drawing option and the simpler values that can be supplied for that option, such as colors. More complex values that have a regular or irregular pattern in the ink are described in Chapter 14. [annotate]

Major issue: We need to add a thing called a "palette", which is simply an abstract color map. Palettes are primarily used as a resource for the limited number of colors on most hosts. Do we need to be able to used them to more directly control color maps, to do "color map animation", for example? --- SWM [annotate]

Note: I would rather prefer that CLIM hides the characteristics of the output device and just talks about colors instead of hardware-dependent pixel values. So if there is indeed something like a palette, hide the fact from the application programmer. The mentioned "color map animation" application is not important enough to convince me that we need such an inconvenient concept in CLIM. [edit]-- GB 2003-01-11 09:03Z

Minor issue: We need to add a thing called a "raster ink", which includes things like plane masks, pixel values, etc. Be clear that this is platform and device dependent. --- SWM [annotate]

Note: See above [edit]-- GB 2003-01-11 09:03Z