Re: Transparency and CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.cairo
Organization Geek Central
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On Tue, 16 May 2017 08:12:29 +0000, mike e wrote:

> My program redraws itself many times per second, which means (I
> believe) that I have two options regarding transparency: clear the
> surface before each redraw, or use CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE for each
> draw (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Always clear the surface.

> I would expect this behavior from CAIRO_OPERATOR_OVER, but not
> CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE; is there something I'm missing?

Yes: anti-aliasing. This means even OPERATOR_SOURCE does not completely
replace destination pixels. The only way to be sure you get the same
result is to start from a clean slate each time.
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