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Posted: **Thu Sep 29, 2022 12:25 pm**

As trying to make a hardware brush with text I found that I need to RemoveBrushPalette() from the brush before CopyBrush() to hardware brush if the source brush comes from a textobject.

Here is the code that tells it more understandable:

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@REQUIRE "glgalore"

CreateTextObject(1,"Hollywood",{align=#RIGHT,color=#GRAY})
ConvertToBrush(#TEXTOBJECT,1,1)

RemoveBrushPalette(1)

BeginDoubleBuffer(True)
CopyBrush(1,2,{hardware=True})
DisplayBrush(2,100,10)
DebugPrint(GetAttribute(#BRUSH,2,#ATTRHARDWARE))
Flip()

WaitLeftMouse

Without the RemoveBrushPalette() Hollywood drops the message:
> test.hws:9: Wrong usage/parameters for this command!
> Read the documentation!

If CopyBrush() could handle this automatically, that would be a bit cleaner I think.

Bye

Posted: **Sat Oct 01, 2022 10:05 pm**

Actually, this is a change in behaviour starting with Hollywood 9. For performance and memory efficiency reasons, single color objects like text objects are stored as palette graphics internally now. This saves a lot of memory in comparison to storing them as 32-bit RGB but of course in your specific case it's a compatibility break with previous versions because palette brushes can't be converted to hardware brushes so CopyBrush() should really do that so that Hollywood 9 behaves the same as before.

Posted: **Mon Jan 02, 2023 10:19 pm**

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- New: CopyBrush() can now also convert palette brushes to hardware brushes

Posted: **Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:17 am**

Thanks!

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