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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Just trying to figure out what to call things, how people really want them to operate. This is relative to marq/time/logo.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">It doesn't really matter to me, just that I would like things to be consistent, and as a native English speaker I really like an english shortcut to make sense in its name.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Options:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Call things -h-margin and -v-margin.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Document that these are offsets from the nearest horizontal and vertical margins, that if you want them </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">relative to the upper left corner you need to have a -position 5 specified.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OR</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Call things -x -y</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Have them operate relative to a single, absolute, coordinate base, the upper left corner. Calling things -x and -y at the shortcut level, then having them relative to -position, is undesirable from a language standpoint.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Call things -opacity, since the bigger the value the more opaque it gets</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Or call things -transparency, realizing that it's operating the opposite of how you normally name something</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Or call things -transparency, but change the internal variable handling, so that 255 = maximum transparency.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Or call things -alpha.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The changes, to make things consistent one way or the other, are trivial, but I would like to get this done, out of the way, so that I can then properly document it.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Just pick something.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks.</FONT>
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