Inks 9.5.0

[richmond62]

Here's a stack I created in LiveCode 7.1.4 (on Linux) with jazzy optical effects using INK
that does not work in LiveCode 9.5.0.
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Pretty cheesed off.

Why has LiveCode, several times, given with one hand while taking away with the other?

[LCMark]

From the (6.7!) dictionary:

Bitwise - These inks have been deprecated from version 5.0
* clear
* noop
* notSrcAnd
* notSrcAndReverse
* notSrcCopy
* notSrcOr
* notSrcOrReverse
* notSrcXor
* reverse
* set
* srcAnd
* srcAndReverse
* srcCopy
* srcOr
* srcOrReverse
* srcXor

Arithmetc: - These inks have been deprecated from version 5.0
* blend
* addPin
* addOver
* subPin
* transparent
* adMin
* addMax

All these inks were deprecated a very long time ago (srcCopy is the exception as it is the same as blendSrcOver) because they have no direct equivalents anymore in the APIs we use.

We were able to continue to support them for a long time after that, but when we last updated Skia significantly (to support Emoji rendering) it was not possible to keep support for these inks.

Chances are you can probably get similar effects using the 'image processing' or 'structural' blend modes which are supported.

[richmond62]

Chances are you can probably get similar effects using the 'image processing' or 'structural' blend modes which are supported.

Gotcha.