PNG with white background but 0 alpha

[cursive wyvern]

Is it possible to create a png with a white background but 0 as the alpha value?
Other pixels can have an alpha value greater than 0.

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[cursive wyvern]

I already tried g.fillRect with setColor as 1f 1f 1f 0f

but that creates an image with 0 0 0 0 rgba as background

maybe it's a compression thing?

[fierce sandal]

Draw routines are going to account for the transluency, and especially in your case transparency, of what you're trying to draw, as the result is supposed to be one layer as the resulting image.

If you want to try such a thing you're going to have to modify pixel values rather than drawing on the image.

[cursive wyvern]

are you talking about buffered image's setRGB method?

because I also tried that

but before I do my regular drawing procedures

would it make a difference if I did it after my regular drawing procedures?

[fierce sandal]

Hmm I'm not sure

Normally, drawing something that's fully transparent is just something you should consider as useless to do

[cursive wyvern]

I need it though

[fierce sandal]

In principle drawing something transparent is equivalent to not doing anything.
So it seems you're saying that you require a step that does nothing;

[cursive wyvern]

not if you interpret rgba data differently

[fierce sandal]

Oh right. Fill and stroke offer different composition options, right?

[cursive wyvern]

yeah

[fierce sandal]

And you've opted out of mentioning your composition of choice, because?

[cursive wyvern]

I mentioned fillRect

the only 'real' drawing I need to perform is drawString

I am creating a bitmap for textrendering btw

the background needs to have a white rgb value so I don't need to switch textures for rendering anyrhing other than text

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[fierce sandal]

You mentioned fillRect but not the composition you used. I literally mentioned it's the composition that may matter. And you still have not explained what's the composition you use nor why.