Re: [pygame] Font transparency in 8bits mode

["XTC's Addict" <xtcsaddict@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Rikard Bosnjakovic" <rikard.bosnjakovic@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [pygame] Font transparency in 8bits mode
> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 10:56:40 +0200
>
> On 7/5/06, XTC's Addict <xtcsaddict@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I only get some black areas where i intented to get some text :(
>
> Fonts are rendered on 24bpp if antialias is set. Else it will render to 
> 8bpp.
>
> Your black font-render is probably an artefact from downsampling 24bpp to 
> 8bpp.

Indeed, whith no antialiasing when rendering my texts, the display is 
correct, not as smooth of coure, but still readable.
Thanks :)

But if I render the text with a background color and antialias set, the text 
is correctly rendered.

Maybe i could render my texts with a fixed background color, and then i 
could tell to pygame that this color is transparent ?