Give .paintPicture method the capability to handle other image types. I mean, it IS a part of the original language and it is meant to modify images and thus newbs to TB will find it online and expect it work for the new image types TB now supports. It has the syntax, the documentation, all ready to go. It just needs the functionality. It will do away with more complex alphablend/GDI+ solutions.
It will also be required for cross-platform support as we can't expect GDI+ and the APIs to exist elsewhere.
This is actually rather important, I feel, as imagery and the ability to stretch/resize images in code is an important functionality, especially today.
Give .paintPicture method the capability to handle other image types. I mean, it IS a part of the original language and it is meant to modify images and thus newbs to TB will find it online and expect it work for the new image types TB now supports. It has the syntax, the documentation, all ready to go. It just needs the functionality. It will do away with more complex alphablend/GDI+ solutions.
It will also be required for cross-platform support as we can't expect GDI+ and the APIs to exist elsewhere.
This is actually rather important, I feel, as imagery and the ability to stretch/resize images in code is an important functionality, especially today.