dankamongmen / notcurses

blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.
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figure out what to do with intersecting bitmaps #1501

Open dankamongmen opened 3 years ago

dankamongmen commented 3 years ago

Right now, bitmaps are drawn in any order -- we're really designed (at the moment) for one bitmap on-screen at a time. We ought draw them in the z-order, from bottom to top. That might be sufficient for the bitmaps themselves. Unfortunately, that doesn't handle the following case:

this is because the text is being drawn in the second text pass, which is the final rasterization pass. theoretically this calls for arbitrarily many raster steps. i obviously don't like that idea.

dankamongmen commented 3 years ago

While we're at it, we need to honor piles when we're rendering sprixels. Right now the sprixel cache is per-notcurses context, not per-pile. That's #1462.

dankamongmen commented 3 years ago

I think we can get pretty far by simply making sure we draw bottom-to-top, rather than the indeterminate order currently honored. that's #1575.