nPopup alpha issue about nmodules HOT 4 CLOSED

MY> Steps to reproduce:
MY> nPopupColor #0000
MY> nPopupItemColor transparent
MY> nPopupItemFontColor #000
MY> Expected:
MY> black text over a transparent backgrond. nPopupItemFontColor #fff works.

Have you tried full 32-bit color specifications?

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Upon further investigation, it would seem that the transparencies on nPopupItemFontColor affects the transparency of the text just as nPopupItemColor does. However the transparency on nPopupItemFontColor if changed to 0, causes the text's transparency to vary based on its brightness: MY> black text over a transparent backgrond. nPopupItemFontColor #fff works.
It acts like a transparency multiplier... for what reason? (I haven't taken a look at the src code for this yet)

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It's some issue with TextAntiAliasMode. Setting it to GrayScale fixes it.

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The quote here seems relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType#ClearType_in_DirectWrite
I think I'll switch the default mode to GrayScale for the 1.0 release.

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