Re: Removing assumption of unsigned long pixel values for colours

[mituharu]

> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:04:43PM -0600, Alex Gramiak wrote:
>>
>> It might also help simplify the NS side to use NSColor objects directly
>> rather than using the unsigned long values as indices to an
>> ns_color_table (CC'd Alan to confirm/deny).
>
> Unfortunately I don’t know too much about this area, but it certainly
> looks like it might simplify things. It seems like there’s a lot of
> conversion from NSColor, to unsigned long, which must then be
> converted back to NSColor for drawing.

In the Mac port, CGColor objects are encapsulated into GC, and
conversion from unsigned long only happens when setting GC
foreground/background values.

                                     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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