[Scummvm-devel] Idea for debug feature: Borders around blitted rectangles

[Eugene Sandulenko]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:55:23 +0200
Ori Avtalion <oavtal at bezeqint.net> wrote:

> Any objections / suggestions?
The idea itself is not so bad, but I see no way how it will actually
help with debugging. I.e. how would you know which part of the engine
drew this or that rectangle.

> And, of course, what color should the lines be?
> If an engine defines itself to be based on a color palette, is it
> still possible to have a single color consistently appearing in all
> engines?
Well, at least SDL backend works in 16bpp internally, so if you would
add line drawing _after_ 8->16 transformation and even after scalers
being applied, that would work. Otherwise no, there is no way to
guarantee that some particular indexed color will be visible.


Eugene