From:	Jason Dagit <thedagit AT mail DOT coos DOT or DOT us>
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Subject:	Re: transparent Color
Date:	Sun, 22 Mar 1998 06:59:41 -0800
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Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
>    Like blit(), but skips transparent pixels (zero in 256 color modes,
>    bright pink for truecolor data). The source image must be a memory
>    bitmap or sub-bitmap, and the source and destination regions must not
>    overlap.
> 
> Any suggestions on how I can reword that so that you would have
> understood it more easily?

Could you define "bright pink" a little bit (no pun intended) better? 
Other than saying transparent pixels are simply pixels that aren't drawn
because they are of a predefined color that is to be interpreted as
transparent.  I don't know what you could say.  My suggestion is
probably worse than yours or incorrect anyway.

Jason

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