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#Paint Bug?

#: 85775 S10/ProgrammingForum unknown
    21-Sep-87 14:12:19
Sb: #85767-#Paint Bug?
Fm: Dale Rice 70611,1103
To: John Draper 76703,4322

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Larry; What you say is of course true. Perhaps I should refer to this as a "feature" of AmigaBASIC, rather than a bug. Still, it makes life difficult, as one does not always know what is the border color of an object to be filled (as in a paint program, for instance). I was further confused by a reference in Halfhill and Brannon's "Advanced Amiga BASIC" book, p47 "We've found some seemingly enclosed figures still permit paint to escape. This apparent bug is not Amiga BASIC's fault; it seems to be at the operating system level and afflicts most programs that use flood fills." There is a work-around solution to the problem of using PAINT to fill objects with unknown border colors. It involves using the ROM Kernal FLOOD tool. See message number 85766 for more details.