[SDL] SDL_SetAlpha-bug?

[Matthew Bloch]

On Tuesday 05 February 2002 10:34 am, you wrote:
> Juhana Lehtiniemi <lehtini2 at cc.tut.fi> wrote:
> >I'm sorry that I can't provide any testcase-code about this,
>
> Experience has taught me to insist on testcases. The sad reality is
> that when someone says "I'm doing this, and it doesn't work!" he isn't
> doing what he says at all.

I agree, but sometimes a post to the mailing list with what you think is 
going wrong is enough for a reader to spot a similar experience, and respond 
with something that saves you the effort of trying to make a test case.  So 
when I post for help in this way, it's usually with this in mind.  Or else 
what you're asking is the set of circumstances to consider when a test case 
appears to work, but the same code 'in context' doesn't.  So a test case is 
sometimes appropriate, but other times you can get the same result with a 
considered posting, and a reasoned run-down of why you think such-and-such 
ought to work-- after all it's in the poster's interest if they want their 
problem solved.

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