The BlendTable module is new to RISC OS 4.31. It supplies facilities for merging paletted colours at arbitrary ratios. This is required for SpriteExtend to provide support for translucent sprite rendering.

The technical details section is omitted at present. I'm sure this requires greater description.

Flags: Source sprite is a pointer to a sprite, not a pointer to a name Destination sprite is a pointer to a sprite, not a pointer to a name Lock table after creation Source mode, or pointer to source sprite area 0, or pointer to source sprite/sprite name Destinaton mode, or pointer to destination sprite area 0, or pointer to destination sprite/sprite name Translucency factor (0-255):

0 for opaque sprites

255 for transparent sprites

That is, increasing values reduce the opacity of source (or, in converse terms, increae the translucency of the source).

 Pointer to buffer for table, or 0 to return size required (may be omitted if locking area). Number of colours in source Number of colours in destination Size of buffer required (if R6 = 0 on entry), or size of buffer used (if R6 was a pointer on entry) Preserved (if R0 bit 2 clear), or pointer to cached data buffer (if R0 bit 2 set)

This SWI is used to generate a table of 'blended' palette entries for SpriteExtend (and other clients). The tables generated will be the product of the sizes of the palettes in the source and destination. The terms 'source' and 'destination' merely refer to the palettes in use. The 'source' is the palette which is being overlaid on to the 'destination'. The palettes will be blended in the ratio: translucencyfactor : (255 - translucency factor).

By setting bit 2, it is possible to lock the area in BlendTable's workspace, preventing the cached copy from being flushed by other clients. This ensures that the space can be used until the area is unlocked.

The palettes are laid out in the form destination by source. That is, given a source palette value (src) and a destination palette value (dst), for a destination palette of dstcols colours, the blended palette value - in the destination palette - is to be found at (dst * dstcols + src).

 Pointer to cached data buffer to unlock

This SWI is used to unlock a table previously locked by setting bit 2 on entry to .
Lots of bits missing; more information needed in places, etc. Fix for SWI numbers which broke build. SWI register and IRQ states updated to be correct. UnlockTable's description corrected.