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- From: fischerj@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Window refresh
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 17:56:04 GMT
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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- In article <4faa68$rai@oak22.doc.ic.ac.uk>, mdf@doc.ic.ac.uk (Martin Frost) writes:
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- |> First, the situation. I have a 640*256 4 plane screen, and a borderless
- |> backdrop window covering all but the title bar. If I made this window
- |> SMART_REFRESH, then it would obviously waste a lot of memory, but I don't
- |> store the data on the screen anywhere, so can't redraw if I made it simple
- |> refresh.
- |>
- |> The problem comes when I have Reqtools and DOS requesters opening. What I
- |> really want to do is to be able to save just the bit of background that the
- |> new window is covering, and restore this when I'm finished. Is this possible?
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- Having seen mui updating only parts of its windows (sometimes not correctly)
- I think it's possible. I guess it's some effort to program ?
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- |>
- |> I guess that I could do it by patching OpenWindow() and its derivatives to
- |> check if a window is opening on my screen, and if so save the background and
- |> clear the WFLG_DRAGBAR flag, but this is too extreme a solution for my liking.
- |>
- |> TIA, Martin.
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