Question

I assume that the background is transparent automatically if I use the device color space (RGBA, so with alpha). But I’m not sure.

How can I set the background color of my drawing canvas or bitmap context explicitely to make sure it is transparent when it is created?

Answer 1

CGContextSetRGBFillColor ( c red green blue alpha -- )

USING: alien.c-types alien.syntax core-graphics.types ;
IN: core-graphics
FUNCTION: void CGContextSetRGBFillColor ( CGContextRef c, CGFloat red, CGFloat green, CGFloat blue,CGFloat alpha ) ;

see more: http://oss.infoscience.co.jp/factor/docs.factorcode.org/content/word-CGContextSetRGBFillColor,core-graphics.html