Both remaining complaints had one cause. The window paints its own background,
and the backdrop was filling the same area a second time. Two stacked layers
turn a translucent window solid, which is the density over the chat log.
And an opaque fill has to carry the entire gradient by itself. That is where the
banding came from: a shallow ramp across an opaque surface crosses so few 8-bit
values that each one covers a visible stripe. Nothing sits underneath to break
them up.
So it tints now. Near-transparent white at the top, near-transparent black at
the bottom, straight over whatever the window already drew. The window colour
stays visible, the ramp only shades it, and the game showing through disperses
what little stepping is left. The sidebar does the same with a flat black wash
rather than a repainted darker surface.
Motes are roughly half as bright everywhere, and the chat log takes 10% of that.
DrawVerticalGradient stays for the segmented control, which paints a surface
that genuinely is its own rather than one already drawn underneath.
JonKazama-Hellion
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