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- From: barnhoorn@nlev00 ()
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Easiest Way To Open A Screen For Drawing To.
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 12:30:10 GMT
- Organization: Alcatel Bell
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- In article <4e9j5s$ron@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>, fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer) writes:
- |> barnhoorn@nlev00 wrote:
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- |> : In article <4e783a$93p@sol.ccs.deakin.edu.au>, podge@deakin.edu.au (AARON SEAN BROWNE) writes:
- |> : |> Just wondering what the easiest way to open a screen for drawing to is
- |> : |> .. Do I always have to open a custom bitmap and set up rasters and stuff..
- |>
- |> : Just open a screen and then a simplerefresh-window on this screen.
- |> : That will do fine.
- |> mhm why open a window. Blitting to a rastport of a
- |> windowless screen is imho fastest method (except direct render).
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- True, but when you open a window on it first, your drawings are
- clipped automatically, which is a big advantage when you are going to
- draw outside your bitmap's borders. Another advantage is that you can
- wait for Intuition-IDCMP messages in that window.
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- Jaco.
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