Re: Several suggestions for image support

[no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> writes:

> >>>>> On 16 Apr 2004 02:21:11 +0200, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> said:
>
> > PNG images support transparency.  Emacs can't make use of it.  You
> > can only have Emacs declare a particular color as transparent.  This
> > is dissatisfactory.  It should tell the PNG decoding routines Emacs'
> > background color for the purpose of transparency.
>
> As for PNG transparency, there was one thing that I noticed (and I've
> been forgotten to tell about it) while I was porting image support to
> Carbon Emacs.
>
> In png_load (image.c):
>
> 	      user_bg.red = color.red >> PNG_BG_COLOR_SHIFT;
> 	      user_bg.green = color.green >> PNG_BG_COLOR_SHIFT;
> 	      user_bg.blue = color.blue >> PNG_BG_COLOR_SHIFT;
>
> 	      fn_png_set_background (png_ptr, &user_bg,
> 				     PNG_BACKGROUND_GAMMA_SCREEN, 0, 1.0);
>
> I think the background color should be specified in 8-bit depth here
> (thus PNG_BG_COLOR_SHIFT should be 8 for all the platforms) because
> the 4th argument (aka need_expand) for fn_png_set_background is 0 and
> the image data has been normalized in 8-bit depth at this stage.

I can indeed see that 8-bit shift is the right setting on X.

>                                                                   You
> can observe the difference using
> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/alphatest.png.  The same thing is also
> applied to the other place (in png_load) where fn_png_set_background
> is called with its 4th argument 0.

You are right.  Shifting 8 bits here as well on X fixes transparent bg.
I will commit a fix for X shortly.


However, on W32, it seems that it explicitly scales things to 16 bits
in both cases.  I cannot test this on W32, so I cannot say what's
the right thing to do.

Here is an easy way to test it -- after downloading the image you
mentioned:

(insert-image (create-image "alphatest.png"))

this should result in a light blue image with nice rounded
edges; a darker blue with rough edges indicates a problem.

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