Re: LoadImage & 32bpp bitmaps

[Kevin Koltzau]

On Thursday 07 July 2005 10:06 am, Frank Richter wrote:
> Hm... is there a way to make the *Blt() functions preserve alpha (as
> they should)? This message:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2003-December/000900.html
> seems to suggest that 32bpp XImages seem to be possible, but then, I
> hardly know X or how Wine interacts with it...

32bpp XImages are absolutely possible..creating them and drawing them (with 
BitBlt for example) is fine, the problem is when you try to pull data back 
out of the XImage

The solution IMO is to use a real DIB engine